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Russia, that the u.s. will further retaliate, because as you know, at the end of the obama administration, the u.s. expelled, what, about 34, 35 russian diplomats, shut down two russian compounds in maryland and long island. >> reporter: so this is a tit for tat, as you said. the obama administration made those moves. remember, president putin had held off and this is really a follow-on to that. secretary tillerson said that theyre considering a response. i think the question is whether they can...

Well, these two men have a stable working relationship. >>united states, despite how russians are viewing this as well, these two men have a stable working relationship. >>. >> thats right. and the state department say this is an opportunity, a gathering, to work with nations like namely north korea. and certainly washington must appreciate russian support for this united nations security counsel resolution with new sanctions against north korea. but the alleged russian election meddling in the ...

Terms of the u.s. beefing up its defenses in the region with that thaad missile system. they want to work together on syria. i think that these investigations and all of the rhetoric and all of the discussion about russia and its meddles in the u.s. election cannot color the relationship and interaction between these two leaders. thats why secretary tillerson and lavrov har tried to get rid of the underbrush in their relationship. i think some of these things, like the diplomatic compounds, like...

Considered and pointed out areas where the u.s. and russia worked together -- space, korea, syria, and a number of areas, those could be veiled threats, ways that russia could retaliate if it chooses to take other actions against the u.s. on top of forcing the u.s. to cut its diplomatic staff by some 750 and closing two diplomatic missions, two u.s. diplomatic compounds here in russia. dave, its worth pointing out that the secretary of state and the russian foreign minister will meet this week i...

This sanctions bill. putin as well as other russian leaders have pointed out that russia has other options for retaliating against the u.s. for the sanctions bill and signature by trump. russia has closed two u.s. diplomatic compounds here and forced the u.s. to cut some 750 members of its staff in russia. thats more than half. putin has said other options not likely now but certainly available. most of the anger seems pointed at washington politicians who they accuse of anti-russia hiss tear ya...

Pointed out that russia has options, and russian president vladimir putin also pointed this out, that russia has options for further retaliations. that would be on top of russia closing two u.s. diplomatic compounds here and forcing the u.s. to cut some 750 members of its staff here. thats more than half its staff. what those options are hasnt been clear. what is clear is that they dont want to use the options now, it seems. they certainly have left the door open. its important to point out also...

Started astacking donald trump directly. something they had refrained from doing so far. and as you mentioned, some of the most stining comments coming from the usually diplomatic prime minister medvedev in a series of tweets and facebook posts he described the move as a humiliating defeat for mr. trump and he said his administration had demonstrated total impotence when it came to russia. and he went to to say that the mesh sustain the has won overwhelming victory. but i dont think the russians...

>> yeah. rex tillerson -- this weekend when he meet with russian foreigners. what is the expectation of that meeting, what more can you tell us? >> right, we go to the first comment from rex tillerson on the recent retaliating measures that the russians have taken, as i said the cutting of diplomatic personnel in russia by 16%. the compounds were seized. as of yesterday we saw trucks with diplomatic plates leaves so the draw down has already started. he said the cut to personnel makes the work o...

For escalation with russia because of what they did to get him elected in the first place. is that basically the dynamic? >> basically. and you have the russians playing this interesting game. they basically retaliated 20 times harder than what the obama administration did because this is just retaliation for the sanctions that havent yet been signed, that arent that bad, and then its also retaliation for what the obama administration did as they were leaving the white house, they kicked out 35 ...

Hill. jim, the president signed the bill, but he certainly didnt celebrate the event. tell our viewers what hes saying about this new sanctions law. >> reporter: thats right, wolf, and we should point out unlike other acts that the president has taken here at the white house. this did not happen in frofnt o the cameras, and one of those bills that accompany -- limits the presidents ability to lift sanctions on russia. after the 2016 election, the obama administration slapped sanctions on russia,...