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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 russia plans to retaliation for the incident where the uk kicked out many russians for the nerve agent

Nerve agent attack on an ex-russian spy raising tensions between former cold war adversaries. abc's 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 was compression of the neck, strangulation, and they're now treating his death as a murder. glushkov'...

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. then later in the week you had the president himself say it looks like russia was behind this nerve...

It does not exist widely. i've become extremely concerned about russia. we invested a lot to solve problems and address differences and quite frankly, after a year we didn't get far. instead what we've seen is a pivot to be more aggressive. this is very concerning to me and others there is an unleashing of activity we don't 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 words. he made those remarks to reporters who were traveling with him on monday night. he then ...

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 wounds, two silver stars, two distinguished service crosses, a graduate of phillips academy and west ...