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Who was so sympathetic to their aims, even in 20 days as national adviser is a coup. theyve gotten sergei lavrov and 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 p...

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 the actual policy, right, so they...

When he closed the compounds, dispelled the diplomats and issued his final round of sanction. are there any ties from jared kushners pre-political life to his companies and this bank? >> reporter: well, look, the second question is a really good question and i cant answer that question. i dont know the answer. to the answer to the first question, 2014 is when they brought the sanctions. look, this is a bank that has financed multiple projects on behalf of the russian government. the sochi winter...

Linkage expressed by vice president press and tillerson and mattis that any easing because of the invasion of ukraine would only be possible if the russians implemented the agreements to get out of eastern ukraine. and, so, people breathe a sigh of relief that the administration had got back on to the more orthodox position. but then there are the stories in the last few days of giving back the two compounds which were not only seized as response to the hacking, but also as a response to some se...

>> reporter: vladimir putin changing his tune, backpedaling on repeated denials of russian interference in lass years election. putin acknowledged private hackers not connected to the government could have been involved. if those hackers feel patriotic, putin says, they may try to contribute to the fight against those who speak badly about russia. the former acting cia director disputing putins assessment. >> its not really credible that there are hackers independent of the russian government wh...

Nonbinding accord, but at the same time we know that russian have intruded into our sovereignty as we were discussing they hacked into the dnc, released the e-mails, tried to influence our election and did influence our election and trump is not doing anything about the actual document violation of our sovereignty. far from doing anything to punish the russians he seems to be rewarding them. he came very close to lifting russian sanctions at the beginning of his administration. the only stop bec...

Dan freed, veteran state department office, and obamas assistant secretary of state for human rights, said colleagues asked them to appeal to congress after they were directed to develop a sanctions-lifting package and arrange a summit between president trump and president vladimir putin as part of a grand bargain to moscow. to these officials it felt like a win-win for putin who said they were unclear what america got out of the deal. a senior white house official says, quote, weve been weighin...

Problem of syria by dealing with assad? what is it that suddenly prompts a reward to russia. >> with apologies, of course, that is not vladimir putin, that is john kerry talking about reports that the compounds will be returned. just briefly, kristin welker, we dont know yet from the white house, but we have information from dan freed and other veteran diplomats from the early part of the administration that the obama sanctions and the seizure of those compounds would be reversed by the trump wh...

Public opinion polls on how we adults view russia. these are the two most armed to the toout 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 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 t...

Leading russian sanctions. you said, unknown to the public at the time, top trump administration officials, almost as soon as they took office, tasked state department staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with moscow. michael, why so many steps to get this done? >> that is the question at hand here, and if you put it in the context of what were continuing to learn about these meetings that...