trump had a suite booked at the ritz-carlton moscow. >> the ritz-carlton moscow is a notorious honey trap that american officials say russian intelligence has every room wired for video and sound. and there's this allegation that he cavorted with prostitutes there, which he denies and has yet to be proven. >> the allegation is in the steele dossier, opposition research initially paid for by a conservative website and then funded by democrats. >> the most salacious item in the dossier focused on this trip that trump took for the contest, and that was that he hired prostitutes and had them urine ate in the hotel room that he was staying because obama had stayed there, and they were defiling where obama had slept, walked, gone to the bathroom, whatever. >> the report claims that night the russian government gathered kompromat, material to blackmail trump. >> former fbi director james comey has said that donald trump told him he did not stay overnight at the ritz-carlton in moscow. >> that is not correct. >> he did spend the night? >> he did spend the night. that's where he was dropped o

but their first connection ran through moscow. with a family that's been described as the trumps of russia. eras agalarov and his son emmen. >> explain who emmen is. his father one of the most powerful men in russia. >> a billionaire possibp singer happens to be a hugely successful man in his own right. >> music doesn't have a language. i can do russian and english in russian. >> and he runs shopping malls and restaurants and including co-owning one with robert de niro. he is a pretty interesting character to begin with. >> and how emmen led to trump takes a ze tour through the world of beauty pageants. miss universe. >> emmen and i went to meet with the miss universe organization in manhattan about getting a co-star for a video. >> and they asked for the most beautiful woman in the world. they also had a conversation about where the next miss universe contest would be. >> and emmen says why not moscow? my father and i own this big concert hall in moscow. why don't we do that instead? >> and he went, let's do it. you will have you

and i'm just going for him here in moscow you won't sing on international live with me don't know who. is for joining us this hour. little trumps national security adviser says washington is going to kennel five key cold war you're on the street you would russia no matter how important that is to moscow we've made it clear for example we're going to get out of the. intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and that's important to the russians and they're not going to see that treated well interestingly when we were hearing from the east decile security advisor john bolton in his remarks he admitted that russia would like to preserve the i.n.f. treaty he also admitted that european allies are quite concerned about seeing the treaty go however he said that the usa doesn't want to pull out of the treaty and he gave interesting reasons let's listen to his words one country in the world is bound by the i.n.f. treaty us china is not bound by our estimates are between a third and a half of their existing ballistic missile capability would violate the treaty if they were and iran has an extens

joining me now, his piece about trump tower moscow. hunter, good to have you, what have you learned? >> well, you know, yesterday, i found out, basically, that donald trump jr. and ivanka trump were on their own pursuing deals for a trump tower in moscow. and this is separate from michael cohen and felix sater's effort to have a moscow skyscraper with the president's name on it. but they were also linked to, at the very least, cohen's efforts. in ivanka's case she recommended an architect. and in don jr.'s case he was, at least as a source close to the trump organization admitted to me, peripherally aware. >> there's evidence they were copied on e-mails from michael cohen and there's a question of how involved were these two, how red into the deals they were, right? >> that's a very good question. but there's no question that they were very, very involved in the deals they pursued on their own, separately from michael cohen. both of them were working on this at least as early ooze 2006. sources close to the trump organization told me t

he is trying to build the moscow. so, you know, was he trying to get along with russia because he thought it was in the interests of american foreign policy or was he trying to get along with russia because he was trying to make russia building a tower? that's the key question about all of his relationships. >> because all of his answers, all of his answers were like, obama really likes putin. putin wouldn't like me, you know. then he goes on to say that sanctions -- you know, he would ease up on sanctions. he was all over the place on this, because he knew he was lying. i mean he had to know that he was telling the american public that he had nothing to do with russia when, in fact, he had everything to do with russia. >> just a quick point, wolf. since you played that part where the president said -- or the then-candidate said that obama didn't get along with putin, president obama if he didn't get along with putin at that point was because of the sanctions in 2014. president obama got the european heads of state, c

about the trump tower moscow. why did the president and his associates keep lying about it? >> that's the big question, jake. why the changing stories about russia? if there is nothing to hide? and why does rudy guiliani keep changing his version of events? after this signed letter of intent from the president was revealed last night, guiliani is now backtracking on his statement, where he said it wasn't signed to now saying it's no big deal. the lengthy letter of intent is dated october 28th, 2015, four months after donald trump announced his bid for the presidency. it bears trump's signature script, and while the letter was nonbinding, it detailed how any eventual trump tower in the heart of moscow would have handed the trump organization a $4 million up-front fee, a percentage of the sales, and control over marketing and design. the deal also included an opportunity to name the hotel spa after trump's daughter, ivanka. but trump's lawyer, rudy guiliani, directly contradicted what is now in black and white, telling cnn it was a real estate project. there was a letter of in

nadler actually weighed in on whether trump knew cohen was lying about the trump tower moscow project. watch what he had to say about the president. i'll get your reactions after. >> the time when he can get away with lying to the american people all the time and evading accountability is coming to an end. the fact that he was lying to the american people about doing business in russia and that the kremlin knew he was lying gave the kremlin a hold over him. one question we have now is does the kremlin still have hold over him because of other lies that they know about? >> so based on your reporting, david, what leverage could the kremlin have on trump and how could russia use this against the president? this could seem at least to the naked eye or to someone who doesn't fall it closely as an n innocuous leverage. >> the question lied to the american public. he said that he, quote, stayed away from russia, had no business deals with them. well, we now know they didn't stay away. he signed a letter of intent with his name to do business with russia and he had his personal fixture, his l

here in moscow money this is your world news from r.t. international the u.s. state of alabama has launched a probe into an alleged meddling campaign during a twenty seventeen local senate election which had been blamed on russia but it now appears to have been created much closer to home it turns out that a pro-democratic billionaire funded the u.s. crew to make more than a fake more than one thousand russian bots on social media allegedly to discredit a republican rival picks up the story. the attorney general for the u.s. state of alabama is looking into democratic party dissin for mation during the twenty seventeen special election it appears that roy moore the republican candidate may have lost due to some shady activities that did not come from russia the information is concerning the impact it had on the election is something that's significant for us to explore and we'll go from there it's been revealed that during the special election democratic party operatives worked on facebook and twitter to undermine roy morris campaign now doug jones the democrat

it is just turning midday and i want to some of the twenty fifth year in a very snowy moscow for me rory sushi and the whole crew merry christmas and best wishes for the new year. well the british newspaper the times has named and shamed staff at a russian media outlets offices in the u.k. it's off to an m.p. accuse the organization of spreading disinformation the hounding of the outlets journalists though has been met with in different spy various media protection groups and initially it was it was a bit of a shock on the other hand it's kind of hardly surprising given the anti russian sentiment that is you know travel in all your key newspapers just say and but it's yes not nice to see your picture up there with your name makes and under the headline as being part of the same when stooge and as i see it you know it's very much part of what's going on just saying you key the sunday times has been so thora and it's. reporting of the threat of so-called russian descent from ation that its latest story about the russian funded radio station sputnik which has a bureau in edinburgh carries t

cnn's matthew chance following the story in moscow this hour. matthew, what more can you tell us about where that site would have been? >> reporter: well, first of all, that attempt to offer vladimir putin a penthouse was supposed to be a marketing strategy. but we now have confirmation from the russian-base of codevelopers of that site that a trump tower was indeed going to be built or they were planning to build it on the outskirts of moscow. and it's the efforts that the trump organization went to and trump's lawyer went to to make that happen, and how long that effort went on for during the u.s. presidential election campaign, rather, in 2016, that is really once again placed president trump's business interests in russia under the spotlight. >>> for trump, it's always been about business, his business, his brand, his properties. >> people ask me, what does trump stand for more than anything else? and if i use one word, it's always quality. big windows, great fixtures, beautiful kitchens. everything is going to be the best, and that's what i

bush and in moscow alexy klebnikov a middle east analyst at russia international affairs council welcome to you all i'd like to begin with you general mark kimmitt in d.c. has the white house simply abandoned the very people that helped defeat. no i don't think so i think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what this announcement means this just says that we're pulling the two thousand ground troops out of syria it will not stop our air support it will not stop our intelligence support it does not stop us from training and equipping troops outside of syria this is very similar to the strategy that we've used inside of iraq the local forces in that case iraqi security forces have been giving a lot of support by the americans but not ground troops and i think what has been done in iraq is a justification of the strategy those two thousand troops on the ground truly weren't making a significant difference. in london. you've heard well general mark kimmitt had to say that they know about issues the reach shifting of the strategies of the syrian kurds likely to see it that way i don't thi

in moscow the second of december is a sunday that means we're bringing you the biggest stories as covered right here over the past seven days overnight developments to update you on first though and the annual g. twenty summit concluded in argentina with leaders of the world's leading economies tackling a raft of crucial problems including the u.s. china trade war the ukraine crisis and strengthening international cooperation the u.s. president had a key meeting with his chinese counterpart but need to give a news conference afterwards the russian president did talk to reporters though to share his thoughts on the gathering and one else aries trying to now report. one of the top reasons if not the top one why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber was the planned one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there that is the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump however just one day before the summit began the american president really put all of us in breaking news mode by tweeting out right when he was on the plane to

of course, in in order for the moscow deal to seem viable, though. you would need to free up the financing that would make the whole thing possible. and this russian state controlled bank vtb is committed to financing the project. that's whose going to finance the thing. so the thing you need is for them to be allowed to finance the project. and in order for them to finance the project, they need to not be sanctioned. so you need your compromised u.s. presidential candidate and his administration to get that done for you. to get rid of the sanks. that's the gear that makes the whole wheel spin. trump publicly advocates that, when prompted by someone who is now in custody as an alleged secret agent. mike flynn and k.t. mcfarland start working on it and lie about it to the press and the fbi. if it was part of this kind of scheme, then yeah, maybe that would explain why they were being so surrepticious about it. the two trump guys, felix seder and michael cohen, they ended up themselves, the two of them, involved in one more scheme right before mike fly

hi there just turned eleven pm in moscow live from r.t. h.q. aides kevin and with you this sunday night with the round up of the big news stories we covered for you of the last seven days it was argentina that many of the world news crews headed to us included for the g. twenty summit in fact to conclude it just yesterday and what is are is leaders as ever tackling a raft of crucial issues including the u.s. china trade war ukraine and strengthening cooperation generally. some of the highlights then the u.s. president held a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterparts at the summit on saturday but neither gave a news conference afterwards unlike those two leaders the russian president did talk to reporters though to share his thoughts on the gathering in south america illiterate trenka was in the argentine capital covering it all for us. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vl

to advance moscows interests appears to have reach a plea deal with federal prosecutors. what might she reveal about the attack on the 2016 election? >>> holy smock. in a rambling misspelled tweet, trump seems to say democrats can't find a smoking gun to show collusion between the trump campaign and russia. but cnn has now counted at least 16 trump associates who had contacts with russians. >>> not enough chiefs. the president scrambles to find a new chief of staff after his first pick to replace john kelly declines the job, and sources tell cnn other top administration officials aren't interested. >>> and pushing back on putin. american forces get more aggressive in response to provocative russian military moves. how will vladimir putin respond? >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news as president trump is looking for a new chief of staff tonight, cnn has learned one strong option, and that's a quote, for the job is the former new jersey governor, chris christie. that comes as the president who has stayed beh

robert: you've lived in moscow. you've written a book about vladimir putin. the timing here really matters. it comes just as russia is mounting its interference campaign in 2016. thmp candidate t engaging with russians at the same time. at does itell us about russia and putin that they were doing both of the things simultaneously. that's -- >> that' the question that immediately occurred to me. when you look at what cohen was testifying to and was included in this agreement that mueller brought t court the oth day, it includes information that multle times that michael coe went interacted with vladimihrs officegh the office of his pokes spokesman -- spokesman who one of putin's closest advisors. he's been with putin since he came president so 18 years. he has been reputeder to be wealthy at the side of vladimir putin. it's not just such random official that they're interacting with. think about thi weaponizing information they call it ins russia i a trademark of this -- this new russian power elite and the post or yet era. what does it mean? potentially it me

and say that you don't have any dealings with moscow. that you don't know anybody there and you're not doing anything. it flies in the face of everything that he said on the campaign trail. and quite frankly, after he got elected. and i think he should obviously be held accountable for that. >> it is striking, wolf, that the fact that this was a lie in the -- in and of itself, be i think, is something that is worrisome, politically for the president, because it means that vladimir putin knew it was a lie. and people in russia knew that it was a lie. and it's something that clearly influenced the president's foreign policy for much of the last two years of his presidency, and that's the core of the concern about it. maybe it's not illegal, but certainly raises a lot of questions about where are the checks and balances to prevent this sort of situation from happening in the future? >> you know -- rebecca, at a minimum, it's so embarrassing. >> right, wolf. and now rudy guiliani is commenting to our dana bash, a new comment. saying that he

good morning live from international's main headquarters here in moscow is just one am one named kevin thinks that using his fuel news update this hour with them. has been an intense day for vladimir putin at the g twenty summit in argentina's just wrapping up tonight holding talks with will of leaders plus an informal conversation did happen eventually with donald trump and also a press conference as well that we brought you live. for us one of the top reasons if not the top one why this g. twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber was the planned one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there that is the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump however just one day before the summit began the american president really put all of us in breaking news mode by tweeting out right when he was on the plane to argentina i won't meet with putin over ukraine the journalists were left guessing whether the east still shake hands or maybe have a little chat on the sidelines and finally on saturday lattimer putin spokesperson confirmed th

good morning from moscow this december the second it's sunday so we're wrapping up the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days but first to overnight developments the annual g. twenty summit concluded in argentina with the leaders of the world's most industrialized economies tackling a raft of crucial problems including the u.s. china trade war the ukraine crisis and strengthening international cooperation. getting you up to speed then the u.s. president had a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart of the summit neither give a news conference afterwards though the russian president did speak to reporters to share his thoughts on the gathering in buenos aires from now reports. one of the top reasons if not the top one why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber was the planned one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there that is the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump however just one day before the summit began the american president really put all of us in breaking news mode by tweet

crazy becomes just a few months off the raised in washington's military budget precisely to counter moscow and beijing. u.s. radio stations are banning the christmas classic baby it's cold outside i'll throw backlash from me to activists all guests debate the issue i think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry what's behind it is you know women want relief we wonder what change there are a lot of important issues right now and when we we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean what we're painting a message that needs to has just become unhinged. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with me in india cuba welcome to the program. the french government will suspend a controversial increase in the cost of fuel in the wake of nationwide protests the u. turn comes off to paris witnessed three weeks of the worst riots in hoffa's century . well it seems that opinion polls show that most people are favorable to those concessions given by the government and announced by the french prime minister today but as wit

international live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are welcome to the program from trade wars to climate change the leaders of the world's biggest economies have been pushing some very different agendas at the g. twenty summit two days of talks one up and burnside is on saturday and our crew was of course there giving you all the latest information. on the. china and the u.s. have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days she jinping and donald trump met on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina neither one though gave a news briefing afterwards however the russian president did speak to reporters he gave his views on the summit and did a patrol go was there in the argentine capital with the latest. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump but just one day before the summit kicked off donald trump sent all of us into breaking news mode by tweeting ou

you know some make make moscow confident you know that the world the less american dominated world is looming on the horizon at the same time i think through the crisis and we can we can certainly observe here the crisis in u.s. russia relations this is exacerbated to dramatic extremes under tromp and you see you get now the congress or democratically dominated congress and then a stray shing in a way rival ring for sanction the russian war in order you know for the administration to look like russia's and stolen and and yet despite this crisis what is striking to me is that present putin continues treating present with what i would call keep gloves i mean he never misses a chance to stress that there are some issues that he agrees with him on the latest example of would be a chump's assertion that it was the united states. exterminated isis. in syria which is clearly not the only country that was present there and i think russians in particular would be usually predisposed to extolled our own role but this is not what putin did why do you think there is such a funny way of. talking t

or with a trump tower in moscow. i want to take a listen to that and have you both react. >> sure. >> i don't know what's illegal about trying to build a hotel in russia. so this is pretty common, and i see no problem with someone running for president trying to build a hotel somewhere. if you were asking and saying i will give you something in exchange for letting us build a hotel, that would be wrong. but i haven't heard any evidence of that. just trying to build a hotel somewhere, i can't imagine how that would be criminal. >> i'm going to have joyce weigh in on this first, congresswoman. joyce, so react to what rand paul said, he doesn't see anything wrong with building trump tower, moscow, while he's running for president. and then add to that the information that they were offering the penthouse to president putin. >> sure. and i think rand paul starts in exactly the place that congresswoman bass envisions. that place is ensuring that bob mueller can deliver a report not just to the congress, but to the america

despite moscow's efforts to help mr. trump during the elections, tensions with russia seem to rise. >> reporter: well, you're absolutely right and the kremlin absolutely annoyed by the fact that these reports of the senate came out, of course, outlining the trolling activity both before the 2016 election and afterwards as well. at first the kremlin didn't want to comment on them at all. today, we finally did get a comment from them. here's what they said. tonight, an annoyed response from the kremlin to the senate report outlining russian online troll activity against the u.s. both before and after the 2016 u.s. presidential election. vladimir putin spokesman denying moscow's involvement >> translator: somebody is very critical of u.s. social issues and we are blamed for it? what does russia have to do with this? it's not described. i can only repeat that we once again disagree with this. we think these are totally baseless statements. >> reporter: moscow also engaging in tough military talk against the u.s. in a year en

trump family in that trump tower moscow deal. the special counsel reportedly examining the deals that donald trump jr. and ivanka trump may have played. the author of trump and russia, a definitive history is here. it's important because you write about a lot of these things. you know about a lot of these things. about i get into it, this was sort of your "i told you so" moment. >> a little bit. you know, you said it at the outset, right. this is about money. and trump has been chasing russian money forever, since 1987 he's been going to the soviet union then to try to find a building, and it just has never stopped. >> let's talk about the charging document from the special counsel. it says michael cohen said he briefed family members of individual one -- individual one of course is the president. and then now there's a report that mueller is intensely focusing on don junior's and ivanka's role in this moscow project. in your book on trump and russia, you talk about the children, but how deeply are the children involved in all of

in other words, trump's financial future was inextricably linked to the moscow project. one other detail about dmitri petkov, it's important to remember, is that he explicitly lied about this moscow project. i think it was about a year ago that he told reporters he did receive inquiries from the trump organization related to a potential moscow but that he left those questions unanswered. now fast-forward to the g20 and we know that peskov is giving a different story. instead he's saying he did respond to those inquiries and it went back and forth. this is just another example of a kremlin official lying, it appears, to protect the presidency of the united states. >> a timing thing here, it was also one of the questions asked by mueller. it was answered by trump in the written responses. are the president's legal team receiving coughs about thenfider response, because mueller is saying he lied about the timeline, so it doesn't sync up. >> we wouldn't expect them to indicate anything else, but the reality is that the relationship between the president's legal team and mich

it's the blame game at its best i mean who is the worst villain on earth moscow again you know it makes me think of nazi germany before the war the jews were responsible of everything while today the populists are the jews of nazi germany it's incredible i mean imagine for instance that moscow would be behind the fact that eighty seven percent of the french population supports the yellow vests that three hundred thousand people were occupying roundabouts everywhere in france because of moscow i mean this is ludicrous but something else must you michael geraint be camping at the beginning of the campaign for the presidency you know it was at bill c. at the ministry of finance in a socialist government and to fume at that time got problems that were coming from where from bill c. so isn't he the specialist the fake news of orienting bates of making sure that you lost the debate within that i probably can't so the worst example is now the fact that blaming moscow is ridiculous what we get we should point out i did hear look at as you well the thing about russia denies involvement in french

that's the plan to build trump tower in moscow. and also corrected the record concerning his outreach to the russian government during the week of the united nations general assembly. the defendant also provided information about attempts by other russian nationals to reach the campaign. this is further evidence of contacts between russia and people affiliated with russia and cohen and other people affiliated with the trump world, trump business world and the trump campaign. that's why we care about all of this. that's what's important. you know, whether michael cohen goes to jail for four years or three years is very important to him. but i don't think it's very important to the larger world. what is significant, i think, is that cohen told mueller -- mueller's office -- significant information about contacts between russia and trump's world. it's not very specific, as it's outlined here. but this does appear to be new information, additional contacts, between russia and trump's orbit. and that could turn out to be significant. >>

so we're not talking just about the moscow tower project that we know about. russian-related matters core to its investigation. trump keeps saying there's nothing about russia here. mueller is telling us core to our investigation -- >> hacking? >> i don't know what it's about, but the other part, that cohen obtained because of this contact with trump organization executives. so, here you have the trump organization being tied to russian-related matters that mueller says are core to my investigation. you know, trump told us -- >> trump turned his company over to his kids. >> well, kids? could be the kids -- >> well, they're the top people. >> it could be trump himself because he's still running the company. there's been no real distance there. but during the campaign, this all happened during the campaign. there was something going on between the trump organization and russia, or russia-related issues, beyond the moscow project, that we don't know about, and it blows out of the water, which has already been blown out of the water, the claim -- >> who's this rus

that i welcome you watching our international this friday afternoon which just gone five pm here in moscow now students across france are protesting against the government's education reforms forcing more than one hundred fifty schools to close in a number of cities to the demonstrations have turned violent. meanwhile french m.p.'s have slammed as an acceptable and humiliating the police treatment of student protesters on thursday that after video emerged of detained students in the suburbs of paris being forced on to their knees. france's education minister has condemned the footage though adding that the context of the protests must also be taken into account the country has seen some of the worst violence in half a century with demonstrators rallying for weeks now more protests are planned to for this weekend where the yellow vests riots have seen three deaths and hundreds of injuries nationwide comparison loan shop profits dropped by fifty percent and four million euros of damage has been inflicted the government has since back down to promising to scrap its proposed fuel tax however i

to moscow and beijing. wave on a wave of nationwide protests on the most violent riots in paris in a half a century the french prime minister is reportedly poised to yield. a controversial hike in the. silicon valley to know just how ethical and honorable a tradition the military head of microsoft promises to hand over the company's cutting edge technologies to the pentagon despite resistance from some of his employees. and us radio stations of the christmas classic baby it's cold outside. meet us on the program i. think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry what's behind it is you know women want relief change there are a lot of important issues right now only we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean we're paying a message that means he has just become unhinged. top stories for this hour on this tuesday and welcome to the program here on our teens in the. u.s. president donald trump says that he is confident that at some time in the future talks will be held with ch

in terms of trump allegedly continuing negotiation for this project in moscow during the campaign that's not a crime. but what his critics are saying is that it supplies for them also brings why the president was so solicitous towards the russians. maybe it was a quid pro quo. so there's a lot of stuff floating about in the air but we still don't have anything concrete that would connect president trump with a quick run. >> the "washington post" reports what which are saying pick some legal experts argue mulder appears be drawing a picture of a candidate who was beholden to the kremlin. e-mails released in the plea deal show trump seeking a financial endorsement for the russian government on a private project on russia present ladoga putin's offering to say flattering things about trump. >> right. this is not the first of those types of allegations. clinton's were criticized because huge amounts contends that millions of dollars, were given to the clinton foundation when hillary with secretary of state and the "washington post" reported a lot of that money was an effort to buy influence

the thought of a trump tower in moscow. cohen alleging that he lied to congress saying this project was in the works and continued to go and be talked about. >> are they intimating that the project was illegal? >> no, they just said he lied about it before congress. that it was still going forward. you get to the heart of the matter here. this is what the president has tweeted about. is it legal or is it not? he was a businessman looking for opportunities? did he do something illegal by talking to a project? where the complication comes is how it strings together with the other russia part of the investigation. we don't see yet in this document that detail of where the mueller probe is heading on that front. again, i have not seen the manafort document yet. >> all right. >> bret, put the cohen filing into context of everything else that happened this week and the manafort filing which we are waiting for. we had the flynn sentencing memo. he was cooperating on three separate investigations. now the cohen memo. and we are wai

hello there welcome is just gone two pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now u.s. president donald trump says he is confident that at some time in the future talks will be held with china and russia to hold what he describes an uncontrollable arms race is also branded u.s. military spending is crazy though he himself increased it just a few months back precisely to counter moscow and beijing. takes a closer look. pouring money down the pentagon hole has been one of the donald's few consistent policies and since taking office trump has been serenading the military we took care of the military like it's never been taken care of before new equipment is coming in we're going to have the strongest military we've ever had by far and hopefully will be so strong we'll never have to use it but i'm talking about tremendous defense capability offensive capability it's in space so we're going to do the space force. but now he's changing his tune he's singing i have a dream and he's talking about harmony and peace between russia china and the united states. sometime in the futu

comes as nato ministers try to save a cold war era missile treaty that they say has been violated by moscow plus u.s. president donald trump and the first lady pay their respects to the late president george h.w. bush as he lies in state in washington the state funeral takes place on wednesday. the hauraki great to have you along everyone we start off in france where the government has reacted after a weekend of rioting in paris and other cities prime minister has announced that an unpopular tax increase on diesel and petrol has been suspended until next summer in a live television address phillips said no tax was worth putting the nation's unity in danger he called for an end to the violence but that hasn't stopped the protests these images that you're about to see. are from must say where students clashed with police so-called yellow vest protests began in november and have since evolved into a wider revolves against president in my time michael. all right let's get more on these the latest developments so with that lisa louise in the french capital of paris only so the fresh a prime mini

you look at the moscow project. mueller's team makes it clear they believe there were communications between cohen and trump throughout the campaign and that the moscow project is central to the russia collusion investigation. you just heard the president last friday though down play the moscow project, saying it was really nothing, no big deal. >> no big deal. the president. phil mudd, i want you to step back. you used to work in not only the cia but the fbi. the president is reacting with all of that with the tweet, totally clears the president, thank you. go ahead, give me your picture. >> boy, i better be careful. i'm about ready to blow a gasket here. let me be clear. forget about the legal side, let me take you to the investigative side. when you are investigating a couple of things are happening behind the scene. you have the investigators in this complicated circumstance with dozens, hundreds of people, financial records, contacts overseas, they have to create a timeline. what happened in 2014, 2015, 2016. b

nicholas and moscow what is the official russian position hey wolf how with the russians going to take advantage of this current situation do you think. well just an hour ago loudon reporting was given his annual big press conference and actually when he was asked a question about the situation about the u.s. decision to withdraw from syria he asked like what is that about we so far we don't see any indications of that and he gave an example is that united states. are present in afghanistan for seventeen years and they promised to pull out of afghanistan every single year but they're still there but he didn't exclude the chance that trump will initially implement that decision that was the official also put in actually agreed with trump that the united states. helped significantly to. to. basically eliminate isis or degrade its got abilities in syria although not completely defeated as we still have some pockets of vises and had to finish in northern syria let in they then go in london there are still pockets of i saw fighters within syria and within iraq itself but they're no where ne

here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from a studio with me welcome to the program. police in paris have used a tear gas against the medics who've joined the wave of protests that gripped the french capital the health care workers are angered at financial reforms to medical transport which they claim would threaten the viability of some companies can see some of the pictures which have come out of paris today the medics have been using their sirens are limited supplies for attract attention to the course students have also joined the protest blocking access to dozens of high schools across. the action follows a weekend that witnessed the most violent riots in paris and half a century president has now canceled an international visit to hold emergency talks with his cabinet are to charlotte duke has all the details. as you can see this sounding there's so iran's here just in the past in the concord as you go towards the national assembly the thing that there are unhappy about is a change in france it was

politics and how moscow continues to use social media to sow discord. >>> and exchanges of fire. north korea accuses u.s. government agencies of sabotaging kim jong-un's deal with president trump and warns that new sanctions may spark a new war of words between the two countries. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news this hour. a stinging rebuke of president trump and congressional republicans from the former fbi director, james comey. he says the president is, quote, lying about the fbi and undermining the rule of law, and that gop lawmakers are enabling him. i'll talk about that and more with congressman david cicilline of the judiciary committee. and our correspondents, analysts and specialists are also standing by. first, let's go to our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. manu, comey's remarks followed his second closed-door appearance in recent days before the house judiciary and oversight committees. what is his message tonight? >> yeah, he came out of the closed-door meeting, blasting the president an

powerful new senate reports on russian interference reveal the scope of moscow's tampering with social media before and after the election, all aimed at helping president trump. stand by for new details on the tactics and the targets. >>> and commander interference. president trump hails a u.s. soldier charged with premeditated murder, calling him a military hero. new concerns tonight about the nation's leader intervening in a criminal case. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". ♪ >>> this is "cnn breaking news." >>> we're following breaking news on james comey's blistering attack on president trump and republicans who refuse to stand up to him. the fired fbi director saying mr. trump has lied constantly about the bureau and has attacked the rule of law in his attempts to undermine the russia investigation. comey, clearly fuming, after a second closed-door hearing demanded by house republicans before democrats take control. once a registered republican, comey says gop lawmakers are being cowed i

i mean, the secret moscow deal is damning enough. it's damning enough that a criminal cover-up effort is launched. that includes the president's lawyer, at least him, lying to congress under oath about the deal. congressman jim himes from the intelligence committee was here last night and told us that it might not just be michael cohen who is in on the cover-up. congressm congressmanhe himes telling us there were not a lot of inconsistencies on the issue of trump tower moscow. meaning a lot of people under oath on the intelligence committee told the same story as michael cohen and michael cohen just pled guilty to a felony because his story was a lie. if other people were telling the same lie about the secret moscow deal, if other people were organized so that they would all tell the same lie, all of those people will not only be in trouble themselves and soon, since the transcripts of their testimony are going to mueller as soon as the democrats are sworn in, but if there was anybody who coach ordinaed or orchestrated that cover-up

have directly implicated trump in campaign finance crimes during his presidential bid they also say moscow reached out to so see it says far back as twenty fifteen now this is all in relation to special public prosecutor robert miller's investigation into alleged russian interference in the. twenty sixteen presidential election miller and federal prosecutors asking for a substantial prison term the transformer personal lawyer michael cohen for a number of suspected crimes there was a good details of how trump's former campaign manager paul manifold lied to them about his contacts with a russian associate the white house says the court filings reveal nothing new or damaging about trump straight live returns in washington d.c. it does see the prosecutors want to see a lengthy prison sentence for at least one of trump's former associates but what else has the investigation been saying that should surprise us. right michael cohen trump's former lawyer and fixer is clearly in a great deal of trouble both for his own income tax fraud and for the campaign finance violations that you were alluding

it's about more than the trump moscow potential there. can you be specific about what evidence you have? >> i want the transcripts to be public as republicans promised but just so you know, the mueller indictment on cohen was -- it only related to a two-page letter that he sent to the committee. because our transcript has not been sent to the team they don't have the eight plus hours of questions. we believe there are other areas we hope the mueller team would be able to probe. i will not violate our agreement. i wish the republicans would hon noir theirs. here we are almost six months after they closed the investigation and they have not done that. >> so are these the transcripts in which you think these are the pages of lies that other trump associates have lied to congress and about who you are specifically talking. >> yeah. >> roger stone certainly have had to update their testimony with letters they have sent once they were met meeting with the russians in florida. they did not disclose to us. there are other witnesses as well whethe

news live from berlin nato urges moscow to comply with a key cold war arms treaty the alliance says a new russian cruise missile violates an agreement that has guaranteed european security for more than thirty years as nato foreign ministers discussed the issue in brussels fears grow of a new international arms race also coming up. the euro gets more muscle to tough out future crises that as finance ministers back sweeping reforms for the current state of find out what they have planned. and how climate change is affecting reindeer in norway and threatening the way the people of the north have lived for centuries. plus it is one of thailand's most popular sports like kick boxing also gives birth children a shot at a better life doctors though are warning that young people are paying too high a price to succeed the visitor jim to see how dangerous this sport is for the young . i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us. new tensions between russia and the west are set to dominate a nato meeting in brussels today the us six is expected to use the gathering to increase its pressur

a worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is r.t. international we do start with this news just in four people have reportedly been killed and several injured in a car bombing this in the southeastern iranian port city of. the explosion happened near the local police headquarters which may have been the intended target of what is thought to have been a suicide attack or some reports say that gunshots were heard near the site of the incident here and when we get the updates you get them to. now washington's a threat to pull out of a key nuclear treaty with moscow has deepened the rift between the two sides with the u.s. accusing russia of noncompliance the american administration is going even further now questioning the relevance of other key international agreements and bodies our correspondent but i guess d.f. investigates it is time for change time for the old ways to die time for a new undisputed leader a new american world order our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order the central questio

special counsel robert mueller also believes the trump tower project in moscow is relevant to russia's 2016 meddling. and it is not just a matter of cohen lying about the time line. all of this happening as mueller says former trump campaign chairman paul manafort lied about five major things, including how long he stayed in touch with white house officials after he was indicted. mueller indicating communication was going on as recently as this year. let's get to it. jeremy herb on the president being implicated in two crimes. what more can you tell us? >> this is one of the most revealing windows we had into what the mueller investigation has uncovered. what's most significant is that for the first time, they said trump directed cohen to direct crimes from the campaign when he asked women not to speak about alleged affairs with trump. what does this mean for the president? trump tweeted that the filing clears the president. he is implicated in crimes that cohen committed. doj hasn't accused the president of a crime, said a sitting president can't be indicted. this is certainly a matte

he talked about trump tower that trump and his people may have been talking about tower moscow all the way up to the 2016 election. let's play that sound. >> did donald trump know that michael cohen was pursuing the trump tower in moscow into 2016? >> according to the answer he gave, it would have covered all the way up to november of 2016. said he had conversations with him about it. >> now remember, michael cohen himself said he had conversation through june 26, he lied and said only through january but giuliani said november 2016. and he acknowledged that michael cohen was reimbursed for paying off stormy daniels. >> that was money paid by his lawyer that i would do out of his law firm funds, whatever funds, doesn't matter. the president reimbursed that over a period of several months. >> oops. there's more. but this is live television and i can't -- we have to leave you wanting more. >> much more ahead. pamela brown will pick it up after this. and cocoa butterer, known to soften. as a whole blend, it nourishes for 24-hour frizz control. blended makes us better. whole blends. blende