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American government. >> he engages with local leading americans, business, local government, as well as with ordinary folks. just lay people, students. just literally in his personal portfolio, this is a guy who knows how to do the main job of russia's ambassador in washington which the understand what americans are thinking and where they're coming from. >> reporter: the russian embassy said he was born in 1950 in moscow. he played a key role in arms control issues. he's been an employee of the foreign ministry of the russian federation an soviet union since 1977. first posted the united stat...

Washington correspondent for "the new york times," david sanger. he's youauthor of "confront and conceal." it is now out in paperback. saved, tell us what you think the leverage relative -- relative leverage right now of mr. putin and mr. obama is? on one hand has putin gained some leverage in these other issues, these other geopolitical issues by hanging on to snowden or does the u.s. have any leverage at all they could use against him? >> the u.s. hasn't had much leverage so far, and you made the right point earlier on when you said that in fact one of the biggest questions that we face righ...

Threat. wait a minute. this is a guy who had espoused jihadi beliefs. he visited web sites that talked about how to build bombs, inspire magazine. he went to the hotbed place in the world for terrorists and yet, somehow he's a low level threat? what do you have to do to get some attention from the united states intelligence services? so i am not buying it. i think that it was a real failure of connecting the dots. one agency not talking to another agency. one agency saying, well, the russians gave us the tipoff. we're not going to trust them. i think it really is a little late in the game to b...

Differences. putin is going through a very difficult period. i think he's trying to cement his legacy. the true putin is coming out. the harsh anti-human rights, you know, we're a major power, don't push us around. it's a very dangerous phase. i think the president has been trying to be diplomatic with him. trying to set this reset relationship. but what needs to happen, chuck, is maybe not this time, obviously, because of snowden. i agree what the administration did with snowden. he has to rebuild that perm relationship. maybe they should go off to a deserted island and try to narrow these di...

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