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Intimidation tactic a way of showing the russian people im a powerful man. ed to manly man. explain to a german newspaper, i wanted to do something nice for her when i found out she doesnt like dogs of course i apologized. >> its well-known that putin is a former kgb officer. and in that role he was trained to be a handler of people. what that means in an espionage context is of course exploiting peoples vulnerabilities but also desires, ambitions, insecurities. to achieve your objectives. and t...

Sanction. so what are the vulnerabilities you see? >> youre right. the republicans at large have decided that the russias interference in the 2016 election was a real problem. and the sanctions bill, what it does, is it limits the white house ability to unilaterally lift sanctions on russia. but speaking of politics, that pole you spoke about at the top, it find that this russia question is really a partisan question. if you dig down into the numbers. you find that 73% of republicans find that d...

States will find a way to frustrate their efforts, or the game will continue as it has for many years. arent those the realities? >> those are definitely the realities? and we have to take a step back and ask the question, why is russia increasing its intelligence question on the united states? and i think theres two reasons. one, they definitely see a lot of vulnerabilities coming out of the trump administration. after the election, they have a lot more data to work with. they know through our ...

And in that role he was trained to be a handler of people. what that means in an espionage context is of course exploiting peoples vulnerabilities and their desires, ambitions, insecurities to achieve your objectives. its to advance your interests. >> reporter: this wasnt putins only apparent ploy involving a dog. former president george w. bush shared a story about how putin dissed his dog barney. >> putin says would you like to meet my dog? yeah, i would like to meet him and out comes a giant ...

Respect is important. russians have immense national pride. russia is, after all, the largest country on the planet. 48 times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones and straddles europe, asia and the middle east. it is also a rich country, containing some of the largest deposits of raw materials from oil and natural gas to nickel and aluminum. culturally, it has often thought of itself as the third rome, preserving christianity even as roman fell to the barbarians. putin understands r...

Whole interview. he is pretty testimony pest use and but keeps it under control. >> jeff youre not a tempestuous youre a measured roert but keeping an eye on the politics which is although republicans and democrats have obviously hit different tones. it is the one issue, the only issue where weve seen a measurable vote of alliance against the trump administration on the russia sanctions. what are the politics you see in the meeting and any vulnerabilities for the president. >> the sanctions bill...

Conclusion as to what it is you have been up to with these activities. people are making a big deal that thats not going to be enough time. that didnt take much time. all you have to do is say look, on syria, which is an important thing now that russia has gained a seat at the table, talk to my national security team. theyll talk to your guys and well figure something out. without a strong lead, putin will view that as a weakness and say okay, theyre good with all the stuff ive done the past cou...

Putin will be going into this meeting really trying to work out where he can press, where he can -- try and get a sense of trump, you know, in person. how intelligent is he really? how stable is he really? how -- >> how stable he is? >> liable to fight back? this is how putin will approach any leader or world politician from the smallest russian provipial official to the leader of china or germany. its nothing particular about trump. >> so when we look at trump, michael, where are his strengths ...

Cant get certain information, and the federal government definitely cant get at it. what we need to do is have a system to basically said the mission is to look at the integrity of our election process, look at the vulnerabilities, look at the threats, and a new information age to the principle of one person, one vote. our voting laws are set up to do two things. one, to make it relatively easy to register and to cast a vote. but on the other hand, it is balanced by -- that is brnsed by the need...

Dont need 100,000 corrupted votes, you only needed 6,000 corrupted votes in the state of ohio. if in fact you go to florida, 2000, that decision, and it was the pivotal decision in that state, was less than 600 votes. if you have vulnerabilities in the system that allow illegal ballots to be cast, you destroy the integrity and the confidence in the system. ill tell you right now -- >> secretary, were running out of time and i want to ask you one more question. >> okay. let me finish -- >> can i ...