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Why are we isolating ourselves at a time when we need other countries to cooperate with us, especially as we enter into these negotiations with north korea? >> i want to ask you about the firm that was supposedly trying to get dirt on the obama administration. >> yes. two of my friends. >> "the observer" in london and "the new yorker magazine" reported that a firm was trying to dig up dirt on the obama officials working the deal. they said they were trying to undermine the agreement. aides of the president hired the firm, and the firm is called the black cube. they denied -- the press secretar...

Newspaper. it's not like a regular oil company. it's an appendage of the kremlin. i think the big point here is the way in which unscrupulous powers like russia can take advantage of the porousness of the western system, the fact that we're open. for decades the kgb was trying to reshape american politics. now these methods have been updated for the age of facebook and twitter and social media. what we're seeing is an astonishing ability to microtarget people and push people to the ex-streams, to try to polarize the conversation. what putin has been doing is try to instrumentalize social divis...

And we are back with luke harding, anne applebaum and bill browder talking about russia. luke, you studied russian intelligence carefully and its methods. i want to ask you, what do you make of this report that cambridge analytical, the firm that did extensive work for the trump campaign, really helped the trump campaign figure out where to try to bring out voters and where to suppress voters, and the russians had some contacts which had been previously denied by both sides. the contacts were through a rig russian oil company. is that a direct tie to the kremlin? is it possible this is somethi...

After it all, it entails so many areas of expertise and seems to assume experience in government and foreign affairs and tackles is the opioid crisis, peace in the middle east that the best and brightest have tried to solve. but the person you hire for that job is instead the heir to a real estate fortune. a highly leveraged real estate fortune currently seeking cash infusions an heir whose greatest claim to fame was he bought a newspaper in new york called "the observer," at the age of 25 years. the applicant has no experience in government, foreign policy, health care, criminal justice, u.s....

"the observer," at the age of 25 years. the applicant has no experience in government, foreign policy, health care, criminal justice, u.s. trade agreements or crisis management. none of that but you hire him anyway because he's your son-in-law. it's the same way you make your daughter a senior adviser and choose her to lead the u.s. delegation at the closing ceremony at the winter olympics just because you know, family. in the case of kushner, there has been some reporting over the past year his responsibilities have been scaled back. but as in the case of middle east peace, they have not been...