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Therefore, we announced certain steps. russia informed us of the steps. as the prime minister made clear in parliament, a very large work of my embassy here in russia is to -- but we always do what is necessary to defend ourselves, our allies and values against an attack of this sort on the united kingdom, which all countries, including russia defend safety and security. thank you. >> laurie bristow there talking ability his meeting with moscow. summoned to talk about the ramifications, how russ...

Nerve agent attack on an ex-russian spy raising tensions between former cold war adversaries. abcs chief foreign correspondent, terry moran is in moscow. >> reporter: counterterrorism police and hazmat-suited technicians swarm a home in southwest london. another russian victim in england, a fierce critic of vladimir putin. this man, nikolai glushkov, a former top executive at aeroflot, the russian airline, who fled russia and claimed asylum in britain in 2004, found dead monday. police say it wa...

Change in tone. how significant a change was that, in your estimation? >> couple of things that i thought were significant about tha that. >> his last, final ride, secretary of state rex tillerson was very tough on russia and signaled essentially that the administration had tried for a year to work with russia, to patch things up and he had essentially given up on that. for hours later, we landed, there was a lot of speculation that the president accelerated his firing because of those comments....

It does not exist widely. ive become extremely concerned about russia. we invested a lot to solve problems and address differences and quite frankly, after a year we didnt get far. instead what weve seen is a pivot to be more aggressive. this is very concerning to me and others there is an unleashing of activity we dont fully understand what the objective behind that is and if this attack in the u.k. is the work of the russian government, this is a pretty serious action. so tillerson spoke those...

Reluctantly i have concluded that president trump is a serious threat to u.s. national security. he is refusing to protect vital u.s. interests from active russian attacks. it is apparent that he is for some unknown reason under the sway of mr. putin. this deserves a word here about barry mccaffrey. as his retirement as he said he was the youngest and most heavily decorated four-star general in the history of the u.s. army. four combat tours, a bronze star, three purple hearts, multiple combat w...

Our elections and in our infrastructure and our power plants and electrical grid and attacking one of our closest allies with the nerve agent attack in britain and we have not heard very much from the president in terms of a response. we finally did see some sanctions this week but even those were seen as a sort of very minor response given all of the various things that russia has done and both sides of the aisle, both republicans and democrats, are calling for the president and for the adminis...

National security. he is refusing to protect vital u.s. interests from active russian attacks. it is apparent for some unknown reason he is under the way of mr. putin. four combat tours, a bronze star, three purple hearts, multiple combat wounds, two silver stars, two distinguished service crosses, graduates of phillips academy and west point. hes the former command are in chief of southern command. hes the former u.s. drug czar. just this week great britain expelled 23 russian diplomats over th...

Our elections and in our infrastructure and our power grid and attacking one of our closest allies allegedly with the nerve agent attack in britain and we have not heard very much from the president in terms of a response. we finally did see some sanctions this week but even those were seen as a sort of very minor response given all of the various things that russia has done and both sides of the aisle, both republicans and democrats, are calling for the president and for the administration to d...

Living through the era of the mad king. this president has enemies all around him. he perceives slights everywhere. there has been some attempts to spin it as this is empowering of trump, hes getting the team in place he wants. this is trump unbridled. i think the president is isolated as a result of all of this. hes about to hit a really rocky patch where it is going to hit the fan with bob mueller and the people that have been around him the longest, the closest allies, theyre all gone. this i...

That putin and putins russia is engaged in actions which are adversarial, which undermine interests of the west and interests of the united states and we have to confront that. and they need to hear directly from the president and his administration that we take this threat seriously, that we understand the comprehensive nature of the threat of putin and russia, and that were responding to it appropriately. there should be no question about that. >> you make it very clear that hearing from an ag...