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In europe and us, that hes not afraid to annex territory in europe. thats something that we thought we got rid of after world war ii. that happened. and most audaciously, he violated our sovereignty in our presidential election. thats pretty threatening. if we cant choose our leaders independently and in a sovereign way, thats a pretty major threat to the sovereignty of the united states of america. so we need to take this threat seriously. we need to contain it. we need to deter it. first and f...

Cooperation in fighting against isis in syria. and that the steps that were falled f ed called for, in terms of easing tensions, would include or be considered for inclusion the lifting of sanctions, the easing of sanctions and possibly the return of those diplomatic compounds that had been shut down by president obama in its last couple weeks. >> kim, our correspondent in russia, matthew chance, confronted the russian bank chairman, gorkov, with questions about why he had a secret meeting with ...

Ejected from as punishment for moscows interference in the 2016 election. a senior white house official told yahoo news there is no agreement to return the compounds without concessions on moscows part. but confirmed the administration began exploring changes in russian sanctions. speaking to nbcs megyn kelly at the world economic forum today, russian president vladimir putin rejected that claim. >> there are reports today in the american press that the trump administration took active steps to ...

Off camera that he heard things were in the works about relaxing sanctions but didnt know if it was true. what can you tell us about this administrations efforts to ease sanctions with russia? >> what we know is that in those first couple of weeks, there were taskings to state department officials to develop proposals for easing of tensions with russia in exchange for itself cooperation in fighting against isis in syria, and that the steps that were called for in terms of easing tensions would i...

Compounds, other steps. and this was something that was done very quietly. it wasnt publicly announced. there were taskings to the state department to come up with proposals to relieve tensions with moscow. people in the state department began to hear about this. >> whats it tell you? you got the report, but whats it tell you? what does it tell a person watching? >> well, it tells you that they were trying to do something for -- >> was it a payoff for getting him elected? >> you can look at it t...

Financial problems? >> obviously we need to find out if this was part of a russian influence operation. >> reporter: just yesterday, abc news tracked down gorkov, also in st. petersburg, but he refused to answer any questions about why he met with kushner, as did the white house today, other than this one. >> does the president have confidence in jared kushner? >> absolutely. >> reporter: we also learned today that just weeks after president obama expelled russian diplomats, emptying those two r...

Of twitter world, i guess one of their state-run twitter accounts tweeted a demand they give the compounds back. a few days later we hear they are going to give them back. there does seem to be a lot of coordination publicly, a lot of coordination. in your view, given what we know now, the democrats have wtten a letter to the white house counsel, who has his own interesting sty. well have to get into that one day on the show. saying given the severity of the allegations and prior revelations he ...

Knees, hes been signaling to trump of his growing dislike of whats going on. >> if you believe that solution is a strong word, if you believe there is that sort of common interest between trump and russia. you know that putin maybe signaling that you know, i am going to mess it up even more for you. >> the prove of that about 9 days ago, we put out a tweet about saying if you dont give us back our russian compound, well make a lot of noise and statements. >> low and be hold, theyre watching of t...

Sergey kislyak into the oval. theyve gotten intel on a supposedly secret third party that was infiltrating isis. then they got it revealed that yes, it was israel by donald trump. now they are potentially going to get back their two compounds that they were using for espionage. they could not have gotten a bigger embarrassment of riches at this point they might as well troll the president of the united states. >> peter baker, you are our putin expert tonight in all things russian expert with you...

Accept or acknowledge the obvious, which is what the u.s. intelligence community concluded, which is that this was a russian-led effort to not hack the election. tims right, that is an ambiguous phrase. but the influence the election and influence it in president trumps favor. >> lets talk about some reporting by the "washington post." you guys were the first to report that the trump administration apparently is considering returning those two compounds to russia. of course, those are the compou...