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Normalize the good folks watching who have now heard so much on russia its moving public opinion polls on how we adults view russia. these are the two most armed to the teeth nuclear nations on earth. russia is headed by a more canny than usual leader. >> one thing i wanted to mention, brian, in the context of what we dealt with with russia that was actually on my plate. people dont realize russia over the last three years closed every american center in the russian federation. dozens and dozens...

Earth. russia is headed by a more canny than usual leader. >> one thing i wanted to mention, brian, in the context of what we dealt with with russia that was tlul actually on my plate. people dont realize russia over the last three years closed every american center in the russian federation. dozens and dozens of them, including the last american center in moscow. these are libraries that have mark twain and earnest hemmingway that russian people can come in and use. and that russians just effic...

One new york. those compounds were confiscated in december in retaliation for russian election meddling. what message would that send? because you know russians really want those two compounds back. >> again, it is a signal to the russian government that they are going to get what they want, without in fact giving the united states what it needs. that is just not acceptable. it is, again, almost like his decision to back out of the paris climate accord. a presidential indifference to the role th...

We need to understand that putin does not care about the values of human rights and of the values which are central to what america stands for. so i am very concerned that if the signal was ever sent from the trump transition team that sanctions could be relieved without any actions by russia, to improve their own behavior, that that would only further embolden putin to continue to engage in these reckless activities which in fact are undermining national security for the united states. and for ...

Striking even after everything that happened in the last couple of months, michael flynns departure and the stories about jared kushner and the meetings with kislyak, trump still seems determined to push ahead with a better relation with russia. to me the amazing thing although the story is wonderful and revealing its the fact that we are talking about these diplomatic compounds that trump is going to meet with putin in july, that the statements from if white house after sergey lavrov came to th...

>> on that note cnn is reporting that there may be ongoing discussions about how they could work with the russians to meet mutually beneficial purposes, including the reopening of those compounds, although that is not moving forward, and also important to know, we dont know the content of the discussions between michael flynn and the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. we have learned though through sally yates and others that they discussed sanctions, although we dont know exactly what it was th...

Compounds here in the u.s. meanwhile, press secretary sean spicer also said that jared kushner absolutely continues to have the full confidence of the president. jake? >> jessica, thanks so much. he was one of the senators who told the fbi he was concerned about the attorney generals meeting with a russian widely known as a spy recruiter. senator patrick leahy, democrat of vermont, joins us next. stay with us. at bps cooper river plant, employees take safety personally - down to each piece of ...

The obama administration, and so the officials who got this directive felt very uneasy, and they began looking around for allies. dan fried, who had been the u.s. coordinator for sanctions policy, was still there, and they reached out to him. tom mol now ski who had step the down as assistant secretary for human rights, they reached out to him as well. and they began an effort to block the administration from going too quickly in this arena. >> so whats interesting here is that when you look at ...

Forward, at least on the russian compounds. vladimir putin is in the middle of an economic forum in st. petersburg, russia. we expect to hear more from him this morning. yesterday for the first time he acknowledged that russians could have been behind the cyberattacks in the 2016 u.s. election. quote, hackers are free-spirited people, like artists. if they wake up in a good mood in the morning, they wake up and paint. likewise, hackers wake up in the morning and read about the news, about intern...

People felt very, very strongly about, and that russia had violated the sovereignty of another nation, one of the first times since world war ii and we really needed to do something very, very serious. the giving back of these compounds is also very peculiar. the way diplomacy works is through reciprocity. the russians are the kind of reciprocity kings. >> countries expect it from each other. >> countries expect it. in a sense you are giving this back without getting anything for it. donald trum...