russia the relations is one of the most import. elements of this international context made a huge impact on the russian domestic evolution the historical mission i think of lot of the middle portion is not just to make russia a great power again but also to make it illegitimate a great power right to compel the other powers to recognize and accept russia as a legitimate independent great power of global significance we are logged there we are in conditions of precisely the new cold war do knighted states still try to everett russia back into its throat defeat into mind in mind this m d wants to transform russia both in terms of its foreign policy in the terms of its domestic politics these pressure off the us russian confronting. i think is impacting the russian domestic development in the very strong way in the that it will be a more difficult you know for for russia to manage its transition in conditions of the new cold war with the united states if we have the acknowledgement by the united states by the west in general in the r

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or force putting pressure on ukraine secondly apparently claiming that russia is more important than ukraine and that is in the sort of egypt interest of the united states to get along with russia will receive green is an obstacle so this goes against the political views or m.p. resigned but i wonder if it's just the matter of him disagreeing with the president because the same unidentified whistleblower complained about your. interactions with the ukrainian president. has suggested that mr walker was often acting not on the instructions of donald trump or secretary of state might compare his direct boss but at the request of the ukrainians for example the close aide to president selenski and the moc given how easily accusations of treason fly in washington does he have her reason to be concerned about the ethics of his own behavior rather than his association with donald trump the legal view point of course yes and what you just described is again proves my thesis that there is a very strong resistance among american bureaucracy against the policies. the president and they apparentl

russia more than us. they have done a big number on russia. and we're over there fighting isis, but they're over there fighting isis too. they can handle it and they should handle it. we can fight our own battles on our own territories but you have a lot of countries over there that hate isis as much as we do. in some cases probably more. so they can take care of isis. we have them captured. the united states captured them. some were released just for effect. to make us look a little bit like oh, gee, we have to get back in there. but you have a lot of countries over there that have power and that hate isis very much, as much as we do. so i think we're in a very strategically good position. i think that the fake news doesn't make it look that way. but we have removed as we said 50 soldiers but much less than 50 soldiers. they're now in a very safe location. heading into an even safer location. and we will help negotiate, we have tremendously powerful sanctions. our country has become economically much more powerful than frankly it ever was. we

we just heard about russia's possible. involvement of the enemy putin speaking to arab media all foreign powers should leave syria and eventually russia would like to do exactly the same thing it's not an open ended commitment. i think this would be the ideal solution but also russia pushing for the renewable the 1998 agreement between turkey and syria the question is how is this possible if the gun i'm sorry let's call a spade a spade are going to try to kill us the they have our friends they've baseband together syrian and turkish cabinet you know just even to kill during meetings you know in the beginning of the state all the states are called monsters. you know i just can't imagine after everything that happened they can return to business as usual but the main problem when you have this is usual to move but you know how you open hostilities i'll take that any day of the week we have looked at but also you know there was a very good article in the american conservative about the u.s. has too many allies yes by daniel a

and the except russia as a legitimate independent group. of global significance we are logged there we are in conditions of precisely the new cold war do knighted states still try to everett russia back into its throat defeat into mind in mind this m d wants to transform russia both in terms of its foreign policy in the terms of its domestic politics these pressure off the us the russian comes from tension i think is is impacting the russian domestic development in the very strong way he him in the that it will be a more difficult you know for for russia to manage its transition in conditions of the new cold war with the united states if we have the acknowledgement by the united states by the west in general in the role as the legitimate great power what i think the 20th when to for transition would be much more smooth and easy and car mornings while we have to live in there thank you very much for being with us today my pleasure. i encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and hope to syria same place

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russia's 2024 problem which is the problem of the issue of power transition. to his successor also very much depends on their cuteness of tensions with the united states how come how is it possible i mean moscow is so proud of its sovereignty and yet you're suggesting that the most consequential decision of a generation of will ultimately depend on its relationship with washington well i think the international context and the u.s. russian relations is one of the most important elements of this international context made a huge impact on the russian domestic evolution the historical mission i think of law the middle portion is not just to make russia a great power again but also to make it illegitimate a great power right to compel the other powers to recognize russia and the except russia as a legitimate independent great power of global significance we are logged there we are in conditions of precisely the new called war do knighted states still try to leverage the russia back into its strategic defeat into mind in mind this and do wants to transform russia

competition as a result of the top brass of russia's anti-doping agency tells someone else did it . i'm told me a lot of both thanks for joining us. u.s. president all trump is declaring his latest moves in syria a victory on wednesday the president announced that he would lift sanctions on turkey just 9 days after he imposed them in response to turkish forces entering northeastern syria the new direction from trump came hours after russia and turkey and now as they were establishing a safe zone along the syria turkey border marking the arrival of russia as the new power in the region u.s. president donald trump is taking the credit for peace in syria this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out a reference to u.s. troops being pulled out of northern syria the reality now is that russian forces are moving into the same kurdish territory that the u.s. has aband

progress of the deal announced by russia and turkey on tuesday. as binge of it has more from the turkey syria border. this area that president trump calls long blood stained sand is about the 800 kilometer long border between syria and turkey more than half a 1000000 people have been killed in the last 8 years and the situation on the ground remains precarious on we've been hearing about 2 incidents which involved bombings and explosions in the kurdish help. and the russians are warns that warned the kurds to make use of these 150 hours to vacate these areas 30 kilometers deep inside syrian territory or face the turkish advance as the turks have agreed with the russians that they will be coming in 10 kilometers deep into syrian territory all this is happening while the syrian government is also taking an active role for the 1st time in 8 years along this border area syrian government with the russians is going to be moving in to try and vacate areas from commission lee and make sure that these areas according to its agreement with the turks are cl

syria and russia but remember they've been fighting again. them for the last few years so that's almost as bad an option as a learning themselves with turkey so they're in a very very difficult position and one 4th of the international community just seems to be abandoning them at the moment. what about refugees and i saw i saw fight is obviously not the same thing but often hard to distinguish one from the other and turkey's effectively threatening to unleash countless numbers of refugees towards the european union if they take action against. the e.u. kind of hamstrung in this situation. i think it is a little homes from the e.u. countries who've got foreign fighters there have got no authority and no ability whatsoever to go in and remove people who are their nationals or who cling to be their nationals and then there's lots of others that are mixed up within the refugees and all the rest of it it's a very very difficult situation with the international community hasn't started on him properly discussed and worked out how to deal with it t

and i provided my view of the future and in the ninety's russia. suffered the most difficult period in its life in its history social economic political crises addition to that there was the wave of attacks on the part of asia with international terrorism and russia we were on the brink and then over the brink we saw something most terrible a collapse of the state. that threat was real it hanging in the air. and people felt that as it hangs in the air it will. be and it was an absolutely real scenario we might have spiraled to civil war long as our independence and sovereignty become a country on the sidelines of international relations as one of the new things to the work of the russian peoples which we succeeded in making that step. now that from that you bring within these 20 years we might have done better but we now have the experience which is unique and useful but before coming to this whole we discuss one of the most burning pressing issues terrorism. russia believes that there is a lot of problems still to be solved inside the country the

that there was one to find the peace solution in syria they need to talk to russia and. if the west wants peace in syria that if you look i. know the idea that i haven't heard much about that i want to switch gears just real quickly here i don't want to go into them around called american domestic politics but you know it much to my mind donald trump will be impeached he will not be removed but he will be impeached by the democratic congress to decide if american foreign policy well again they should call the show on predictability because it's very difficult to many variables and there well do you want to call him well i think well no although that i think probably 3 major areas one will be did they think they're going to isolate the u.s. within i notice this but they're also going to isolate the united states and iran. fears i think from trump we're going to see possibly more brazen foreign policy because he would have he would really need in order to win the election under pietschmann he would need some big win and want to win means does it mean striking a trade deal

they were great fighters and we had a terrific alliance with russia wants nothing to do with isis russia is tough they can july says just as well to rely on russia and iran to protect us against.

russia fully intends to meddle in next year's u.s. presidential election that was the tongue in cheek responsibility putin has answer to a question about plans for the upcoming race for the white house is russia. alleged attempting to influence the 2020 lections united states secret. secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you up properly but don't tell anybody ok well that's quite a statement coming from the russian president but you have to take it with a pinch of salt because he was obviously joking but on a more serious note he was addressing probably what might become russia did it his area of volume 2 now after all the numerous investigations that we've seen into russia's alleged meddling in the us presidential elections back in 2016 all the media hype that we've seen in the past 2 years pretty much every single quarter someone screamed that it was russia that meddled in the us presidential elections russian meddling in the u.s. election russia did meddle in the 2016 election for united states to still vulnerable to

or russia or or iran or china and when they want to be a little can you can you play their game with the other side they need to and that would be unique and i think nato would have to adapt a bit because. throughout the bipolar and you know polar air you need us man to align with the united states and you know you're fall in line i think at the moment we're going to have to accept a bit more deviations because turkey will it demands to pursue its turkey 1st so it's a national interest to me like a little bit pregnant it's not. particularly. because it's only a military audience with members of different enemies for instance or for the french people the enemy is people killing in the streets of paris for the bolan for the polish the enemy is supposed to be russia as well for the for the greeks for the. and for the government the enemy of the so it's not a military alliance to be to be honest it's a political audience it's a way we're using used by washington to control to politically reside the they really do need to get down to the 2nd most powerful military in nato which is to and

amna, what does this deal mean fo russia? >> it means russia has much more ofse a pe and influence in that space. t end?: to w >> one, part of a larger geopoliticalphere. they're more aligned to turkeyk now. we saw this previously with tensions between turkey and the u.s. in a deal for the air missile defense system that they bought from the russians. the u.s. dn't like it. there have been tensions for a while between the u.s. and rkey, which is aato ally. turkish had with forces on the ground. that was always a tenuousec alliancese the stronger alliance was always with turkey. it w w never a questionf when the u.s. was going to leave. we flew the u.s. would have to leave at some point. the big questionas how they'd and by all accounts, the day after that call by president trump and president erdogan, it was total chaosas to -- as toto how that decision was reached. robert: why did many advisors pull back on the support of turkey? >> anytimeouhink about the foreign policy, you have to think about it in the america firstme fnd

and russia has been critical throughout in this has not. absolutely and this is a major concern that you've touched on that has hit close to home literally in the u.s. congress not just by opposition democrats but also by members of the president's own republican party one of the biggest supporters of u.s. president donald trump mitch mcconnell the top republican in the senate very concerned about this putting forward legislation to try and undo the u.s. withdrawal citing not only the concern there would be new influence now in the region by russia and also iran concerns for the united states but donald trump pushing back on that saying that this is not a fight that the u.s. needs to be in it's time for other players in the region to step up that this is already something where the u.s. has stayed much longer than was ever intended turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out long time we were supposed to be the

. >> putin and erdogan and the notion russia is moving into the vacuum the u.s. is leaving. is whatary gidley: that we are trying to avoid. the president went into these national security issues wide-eyed. now you see some of his detractors like lindsey graham saying it is optimistic. the president was clear when he ran, what he wanted to do was secure those regions and bring our troops home. that is what he is trying to do. he still wants to keep forces behind to protect oil and ensure stability in the region. today is the final day of the cease-fire. we expect that temporary de-escalation to transition into permanent by the end of the afternoon. the president takes this very seriously, because he sent a delegation heading by the vice president to secure a historic deal between two warring sides of hundreds of years. we are monitoring that deal closely, because we want to maintain the games we have had. -- gains we have had. he is the one that defeated the isis caliphate 100%. >> [indiscernible] >> are you saying black americans should suck it up? -- it up because the econo

you had mentioned russia. are there other countries we should be worried about in terms of nefarious action in our 2020 elebs? >> the intelligence community have pointed to north korea, and china as potential actors. and as we rely more on social media and other avenues for our news, i think we can anticipate we'll see more of that. it highlights the bipartisan nature of this. we cannot say russia might have preferred president trump over secretary clinton but it might be that another country prefers the democrats over the republicans. that's why it's so important we address this as a bipartisan way. we don't know how adversaries might try to impact our elections. >> election security came up last week before the house judiciary committee. they heard from the representative from the election assistance commission. want to play you some of that. >> there are a number of responsibilities that election officials have, and i believe that the election assistance commission should be more empowered to work on those

we had a terrific alliance with russia wants nothing to do with isis russia is tough they can kill isis just as well to rely on russia and iran to protect us against a rise of isis is quite frankly and saying we may know more about how the president framed the issue to president in this leaked letter trump writes quote history will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way it will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen don't be a tough guy don't be a fool but they did go to other countries and with his vice president india audience just hours from heading to turkey to demand a cease fire the president sent this message turkey and syria will hopefully work it out between themselves so now what's next well all eyes will be on vice president mike pence as he heads to turkey to ask for a cease fire that experts say much less likely to happen now given the president's comments the u.s. house of representatives in an overwhelming vote passed a resolution condemning the president's move and they're threatening quick sanctions on turkey if the

for the kindy ripe of divisiveness that russia there's also6 and substantial evidence that russia specifically wanted to help donald trump's campaign and hurt secretary clinton's campaign. host: is among your concern that , just thennovation mere threat of tampering with elections keeps a voter turnout down? guest: that is a huge concern, and i think there is good evidence that that is exactly what russia and our other adversaries want. they want citizens of our democracy and other democracies to lose confidence that their votes matter, that their votes count. the more that citizens of democracy lose faith in the democracy, the more autocracies like russia can fill the vacuum and we are seeing that now. host: we are talking about election security particularly in 2020. we welcome your calls and comments. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8002 for independents. you can also text us, (202) 748-8003. make sure you put your name and where you are texting from. heading now into 2020 how confident are you that serious changes or improvements have been made in el

want you to do you a protester and say that you so i agree with russia i. want you to do so israel despite the prime minister's in oils are n.h.s. is sold very well despite the prime ministers in oils are n.h.s. is up for grabs by us corporations so i'll try to yield up for grabs by us corporations so i'll try to yield to serious disease or did yes yes do you think the the n.h.s. should not he did not engage gage in the good negotiation issue to ensure the british thank you tragedies thank you thank you thank you thank you c.c. thank you she says this is filtered through the filter start of the 1st cross-time garden is the prime minister is talking nonsense. thank you ok we're supposed to leave the european union on the 31st of october all the u.k. was supposed to leave the european union on the 31st of october but boris johnson was forced by parliament to ask for a deadline extension but boris johnson was forced by parliament to ask for a deadline extension and brussels agreed to push it back until the end of january polly boyko takes a look at how brits h

russia is second and china is third. it is very costly and very dangerous. it is very, very dangerous. and we are discussing with russia and we are discussing with china during the recent trade deal with china, i said, we should all get together and work out something, have a cap, have a cap. we don't need 10,000 weapons. to have cap. and i will say, china and russia in talking about it are extremely excited about it. >> sean: we have to have trust. >> president trump: 100% we need all of that. i'm the one that terminated the agreement. they didn't terminate it because we found they were doing things they were not supposed to be doing in the agreement. so we had an agreement, you know, a nuclear agreement, and we also had all sorts of limits and we were the only one paying attention to it. that's not fair. but now they know we are a different country. and i think russia would like to make a deal, and i think china would like to make a deal pier that will be a terrific thing. i would love to be a part of that. >> sean: i was surprised you didn't hit iran. >>

turkey is not moving toward russia. it is making all kinds of deals with the soviets and so that relationship between russia and turkey that really this is about a new narrative from erdogan. he wants to see turkey as the leader i'm not sure of what but look at his pronouncements and you saw me last week in the new york times talking about the nuclear option. he has been wanting to reform the un security council. of course he thinks turkey should be a permanent member of the security council. so you can see very ambitious and this is very much in line with the ideation of foreign policy. sometimes it is very aggressive. it's also very pragmatic. he knows how much toic push and when to stop pushing to make the deals and that you can be stopped. but the most significant aspect off his foreign policy is to make himself the most important leader or even to upstage in the process he has completely personalized and he needs a message of that mobilizes people. in that critical part of the message has to recognize liberales dem

report and the origins of russia because i think it is i think there's a huge it's. great here the the the crown prince of western liberal ideology as a critic. well the point is there mr biden is rightly accused of corruption because what happened was that he did not just fire the prosecutor the way he. you know he he demanded he didn't fire him he didn't fire how did it happen he sat in the president's chair ready. then he addressed the ukrainian parliament saying in 6 hours my plane is leaving in 6 hours i want this guy out you know and the parliament and the government you know almost a week to shorten simply because by then wanted to that whether mr shorten was corrupt or not it's a big question you know again short and was appointed by this new government which came to power via a violent who you know with the support of the united states and the european union and this new government under leashed and civil war and what makes me specially angry is what are the democrats angry about trying to give them sound on time with the weapons you know the sniper rifles t

really one of the key figures in russia and so now here years is suddenly you know from russia gate is moved on to ukraine get a chance to lead which i think is reasonably believes there at the origin of truck russia is to be found in ukraine and he was asking israel in investigating this and in this case ukraine as you can. russia get so i think that will do a lot more damage ship. in the u.k. a christian doctor who was sacked after refusing to use female pronouns when discussing a transgender woman has lost his legal fight against his former employers he says they discriminated against his religious beliefs but an employment tribunal has ruled his stance was incompatible with human dignity with more details here she added stuff to. well you're probably familiar with pronouns such as he or she and them and respecting them is especially important for the transgender community gender nonconforming and binary people however fail to get it right could now cost you your job at least that's the case for one dr he himself was sacked he faced dismissal because he felt he hears these pronou

yet the lot of us are the result of that so russia has always had close relations with the cards and of course is one of the main players and they conflict in syria so let's go to moscow where we join d.w. correspondent and money show and welcome back emily what is moscow's line on this. well as you say phil russia has always had historically close ties with the kurds that stretches all the way back to the soviet union that they did lose a lot of trust from the kurds last year when they kind of gave approval for turkish air strikes against the african region which is was turkey kurdish controlled excuse me now what we've seen from the kremlin has been rather neutral a statement was published on the kremlin website which said that there had been a telephone call between president and on and president putin seemingly just before the operation was launched and that putin had warned his turkish counterpart to be careful and to take care that the kind of peace process in the regulation of the syrian conflict doesn't isn't brought off track by this offer a show on the russian line is very

assad has one and russia calls the shots and i thank you will see hedging strategies. generally we exercise that leadership for a couple of reasons because we always found it to be in our interest to do so. and to set out the initiative to have others hopefully's - - sign-up and we have read about the vacuum created in the absence of that leadershipha and who might step in and those who could are the weaker states like russia or iran who lack the ability to challenge directly except when we back off that then the nonstate actors in certain areas frankly there is no government anduthority to step in provide that in ways that are quite destructive. >> i agree and on the issue of weaker states with more powe power, how to survive with the maximum pressure policy and then to talk about sanctions and being successful to consolidate in syria but the sanctions only policy was not sufficient to remove iran or influence from syria. i want to return to what we were just discussing because the reason the study group talked about needing a military presence was not only about comp

folks they will russia and china at the top and typically say russia short-term they have a capability to a stronger economy and population etc.. it does china want to surpass the u.s. come absolutely. it's about regaining their rightful place at the top of the world. what's interesting is russia had a similar mindset going back not as far but the collapse of the soviet union they feel they were humiliated and folks know better in the room tammy what's interesting chinese leaders to study the fault and collapse, china studies at and they say we don't want to be that. >> by impression is they say knock it off and it kind of works for a period. >> the former deputy director of the nsa, basically the cyber operations response. he said after obama delivered a tough warning that there was a discernible downturn in activity in terms of volume but not a substantive change in the aggression. it's still as active as what they were taking away in the public and private sectors. >> they basically la lay out wht they are going to do so i mean, what is it that they are going to do in general they w

russia as a region as the. we are not offering proposals now there is one very surprisingly for russia not for us and 4th it's also a sign of burden sharing towards united states they have given up the region they have created the chaos started with obama and his red lines and now with from so we show that we europeans would like to take over responsibility in the vicinity are you talking about maybe german troops sharing a patrol with russian troops in northern syria is that what we could possibly be looking at it's a question of the force approach post-show it's a question of the international law is that the united nations mandate what we at least need is russian presence our syrian liaison officers are turkey liaison officers but it should be in operation together of you're opinion member states of regional actors and with russia and so on so it should be open should be it need to be defined you don't think russia though is going to feel threatened because right now russia is flexing its military muscle in

and in this case on ukraine gate it's even then 0 and russia get so i think that will do a lot more damage ship. the term spin given the green light to impose 7 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of tariffs on goods exported from the e.u. the ruling by the world trade organizations the largest in its history is part of a 15 year battle over illegal subsidies made to european playmakers. as an italian journalist seized the chance to express her opposition to the move by handing your sect of state a large wedge of parmesan cheese encounter happened during a photo op between mike pompei and italy's prime minister in rome on when they. actually aired was . going to any was what we asked the journey 300 the cheese there to form a about what was behind her gesture. usa market is very important from italian export because it's something like 12 percent of our all export so. i was stored there even a. very gentle they would never eat any other cheese i just wanted to tell them look that's what you could lose if you put duties on our products. the new tariffs could come into force assume is oct

russia and the murderous assad regime is flowing in to fill a vacuum. he's given isis, formerly al qaeda, a new lease on life by forcing the kurds to leave from continuing to fight isis and hold the 10,000 isis prisoners they have and fleeing north to try to protect their sons, their daughters, their families. instead of fighting for remnants of the so-called caliphate that isis had set up. and leaving guarding 10,000 isis terrorists and supporters, some of whom have already escaped and the throw of global confidence of american leadership into complete freefall. i'll say something self-serving. this is something i know a lot about. i spent a lot of time in that area. i know all of these leaders. i've been engaged because that was my job as chairman of the foreign relations committee and doing major national security in intelligence matters for president obama. all of the consequences i've mentioned, every single one can be laid at the feet of donald trump. you know, he greenlighted turkish invasion. now he's left asking turkey to stop it. but the damag

russia is a tiny little pea compared to china. the economy is tiny, depleted their own military, still an adversary, but nothing like china. tell us about this michelle, why it's such a national security nr country. >> it's the idea, they had 20 of these missiles, very old-fashioned, obsolete kind, for most of the last few decades. now suddenly that got 90. they are able to reach any target in america in 30 minutes or less. each one can carry 10h bombs, big round nose cone you saw, the shape of that knows: is 10h bombs that can fit inside. each one be separately targeted against an american city, or a small town, or an air force base. so that is one huge surprise, but there were several others in the parade. this wasn't supposed to happen in china. >> laura: who gave them the money to pay for the military weaponry, the advanced technology -- they stole a lot of it, but who pay for it? >> we did. wall street, basically, through investments. one thing they're very upset about, i don't know if you saw, the day before the parade, chin

the kurdish forces and russia's support for the y. p.g. and the syrian kurdish fighters they have come to an agreement but everything this tension will when it comes to syria especially when russia has the upper hand in the underground but politically they are committed for a political solution which is through a constitutional committee in syria he was also saying mr erdogan the only part of his address to assemble reporters there that didn't seem to have a natural end point he was talking about why p.g. faces being quote removed from the area in and around man beach what does he mean by being removed because he seems to move beyond saying we will go back to the military possibility once the ceasefire ends they've moved on to what's happening tomorrow and the day after the new 150 hour time scale not $120.00 a time scale of the cease fire that dies in a couple of hours so what does he mean by that. well yes i didn't want to touch on the details about the ground as my colleague charles is by the border and he's going to give more info

russia it's really amazing here. and west russia it's really amazing here. and i give her a lot of courage for wanting to do that but the penalty i give her a lot of courage for wanting to do that but the penalty of wanting to do something is nominally a good idea cost her a lot of wanting to do something that is nominally a good idea cost her a lot and she gets no credit for that in the media here in the media as they should and hero and the russian media gets no credit for that in the media here in the media as they should and hero and the russian media she's in iraq but the point is . she's in iraq but the point is. you know last time talking about the u.s. politics you said there has been you know talking about the u.s. politics you said there will be a fight to death with the democrats who can the deep state be not only the demo fight to death with the democrats who can the deep state be not only the democrats and trump and poor woman is a part of it and trump and poor woman is a part of. this. we don't know who we. decide to this. we don't know who we

anyone who wants to protect syria and assisting the kurds is good with me, russia, china, or

that russia did it. but the position of the trump administration, of course, is that russia didn't do it, and now the attorney general's inquiry, which is apparently designed to prove that, now that is a criminal investigation with, quote, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury, and to file criminal charges. that means that the law enforcement and intelligence officials who were involved in investigating russia's attack on our election are now potentially the subjects of criminal charges. this, of course, is happening against the backdrop of impeachment proceedings in the house. i am sure that is totally unrelated. >>> joining us is congressman shan maloney, the lead committee on the impeachment matter. thank you for being here. >> great to be with you. >> i had a whole bunch of different things to talk to you about, but then this news broke. i have to get your reaction to it. >> it's alarming because we know trump is itching to politicize the justice departmen

russia say member of the u.n. security council and would probably like to enable some sort of political process that could fold assad back into the international community. iran is a pariah state not in the international community in that sense. so probably doesn't share that same objective. our conclusion at the tend of the day is there is more unifying russia and iran in the opposition to the united states and minimizing u.s. leadership in the region. >> okay. so what is the syria study group recommend recommending iran's presence in syria assuming you believe iran should not maintain a military presence in syria, what recommendations do you have to achieve that goal? >> a lot of what iran is doing is not an overt military nature. a lot of that is very much in the news because you see the israeli air strikes, for example, against iranian missiles and things like that. but there is this economic and sort of social element to it as well. i think that 5:activity doesn't get exposed sufficiently. i think we should h

saying that anyone who wants to assist syria in protecting the kurds is good with me, whether it is russia, china or napoleon bonaparte.

and russia. that's what he's been trying to do. >> i would not think it would be an exaggeration that relations between the white house and congress on foreign policy issues is also an estate of some agitation these days. weather it's ukraine or the turkey syria crisis. i wonder if you could fresh out for us a little bit different parts of that conversation and weather veto both in the house and the senate for majority. >> in this complicated dynamics and crisis in u.s. turkish relations, there's more than two actors, with much of russia and syrian regime, thinkers deserve a little more attention is a party to this current crisis in u.s. turkish relations. are you looking at the carnage future looking at within turkey and the activities of the syrian kurds as well is iraqi kurds. someone or if you want to address how the carnage question has always been part of the u.s. turkish relationship and weather what is the carnage side of the story these days. >> for the guards, clearly this is the major

president donald trump is describing the agreement the truce that we're seeing between russia and turkey as a major breakthrough made possible by his policy in syria is that true well that was a very typical of donald trump move essentially what we've been seeing here today is something we've seen before many many times presidents come to clear victory on a crisis that he created in the 1st place and let's just remember how this all unfolded there was a phone call between president wretch of type every one of turkey and president trump and as a result of that phone call president trump decided to pull out the u.s. troops of syria that created a power vacuum in syria and essentially and eventually leading to a deal splitting up syria between russia and turkey and they the outcome of that is that russia became stronger asop became stronger putin became stronger. go on of course as well and even i since my research in the future and the u.s. gave up their last influence in syria so talking about ice is also said that isis will be under control in fact and we had the u.s. top envoy for syria

gate i mean the ship was really one of the key figures in russia and so now here he is suddenly you know from russia gate is moved on to ukraine get a chance to lead which i think is reasonably based that the origin of true russia is to be found in ukraine and he was asking israel in investigating this and in this case ukraine gate is even lindsey are there and. think that. will go down that ship. and speaking of the trump he's been given the green light to impose 7 and a half 1000000000 dollars worth of tariffs on goods exported from the european union the ruling by the world trade organization is the largest in its history and is part of a 15 year battle over illegal subsidies made to european plane maker us as an italian journalist sees a chance to express their opposition to the move by handing the u.s. secretary of state a large wedge of parmesan cheese encounter happened during a photo op between mike pompei and italy's prime minister in rome on wednesday. was ambassador there as i was a as the as he was and we have asked the journalist who handed the cheese to pompei about wh

that's why, for russia, 1989 was so traumatic. cheering and applause. 30 years ago, people power swept away the iron curtain and with it, moscow's domination of eastern europe, russia's empire. today's russia wants to forget about 1989. it was the period of backtracking, surrender, defeat. across eastern europe are ghosts of the fallen empire, shards of a former superpower. soviet army bases lie abandoned. this is wunsdorf, near berlin. moscow had 800 military garrisons in east germany alone. when the berlin wall fell, it withdrew all its troops. anton was the commander at wunsdorf, and the last russian soldier to leave germany. translation: when we left, politicians in the west cried from the rooftops that nato wouldn't take a single step to the east. but today, nato hasn't only reached our borders, it's come right up to our fence, to our gates. but 30 years on, it's russia that's flexing its muscles. we saw this display of strength in crimea, ukrainian territory russia annexed in 2014. the collapse of the iron curtain had brough

no, according to this conspiracy theory, russia didn't do that, russia didn't intervene. what actually happened is that it was the obama administration that was setting this all up as a frame job. they were colluding with foreign countries to set up russia to make it look like russia was interfering and to set up the trump campaign to make it look like they were getting help from russia. but it was all a frame job. it was all a false flag operation set up by the obama administration to somehow get trump elected and then undermine him once he was in office? it's never been totally clear how it all worked. but that's the conspiracy theory, that the attorney general of the united states appears to have been going around the world trying to prove. just yesterday we had this remarkable reporting about the prime minister of italy who was dragged before that country's parliament. the intelligence committees of his parliament to answer questions about what he and the italian government and italian intelligence service had been talking about with attorney general bill barr who has

them in response to turkish forces entering north eastern syria trump's new direction came hours after russia and turkey and nouns they were establishing a safe zone along the syria turkey border marking the arrival of russia as the new pot in the region. u.s. president donald trump is taking the credit for peace in syria this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out. a reference to u.s. troops being pulled out of northern syria the reality now is that russian forces are moving into the same kurdish territory that the u.s. has abandoned meanwhile there has been a cessation of fighting. because i think what we have seen over the last days is encouraging because it shows that it is possible to move towards a political settlement the political solution what you have seen is at least some reduction some significant reduction in violence and fighting russia and turkey want to

returned to russia finally i would like to point out to return to russia finally i would like to point out to our viewers that you and you know neal of the news division had a wonderful interview with her our viewers that you and you know neal the news division had a wonderful interview with her here at our t.v. and i recommend everyone go over and have a look at it here i mean one of the things here at r t and i recommend everyone go over and have a look at it here i mean one of the things the if this is such a bizarre and senseless and tragic even if this is such a bizarre and senseless and tragic even cruel story i mean. you know this is how the american media reported her rule story i mean. you know this is how the american media reported her return just let me give you 2 outlets here alex and let me get your comment here return just let me give you 2 outlets here alex and let me get your comment here political ran a story titled to know who admitted being a secret agent of the political ran a story titled who admitted being a secret agent of the kremlin out of prison the a.p. foll

gate which by the way russia gave there's not much russia in russia gate but there's a lot of ukraine in ukraine gate. and we're going to be a mother we had great people paul martin for good point you know when we 1st arrived scandalous articles about him in the washington post by and have a warm august basically they all forgot to mention that he didn't do anything in russia he did everything in ukraine and go to the d n c and he was i'm sorrier but at least he walked on his specialty he was a political consultant he got millions for that but the bidens or chameleons for something he didn't understand here shooting him because of his father's name but he was his father son he didn't understand anything in their straight or in energy where did you come to buy them get education in energy star gets you know so the more stories of what i'm going to write or break for but i understand. knew a lot about pharmaceuticals you know what i mean we're going to go to a short break here and after a short break we'll continue our discussion and some real news stay with our team. yes. in this conte