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Works. a prominent moscow newspaper reports there could be a $50 million deal brewing for cuba to eventually buy some russian military hardware, part of a pattern of military cooperation between putin and cuba apparently designed to spy on the u.s. >> cuba is russia's toe-hold into this hemisphere. it is a place for some very close ties with the russian military, with russian military. it is a key port for russia. >> reporter: the possibility of more russian hardware in cuba harkens to the moment america came the closest it has ever ben to nuclear war. october 1962 when a dangerous alliance be...

>> i have been waved off from state department official that there will be any communication or joint statement as a result of this meeting. they don't want to call it a summit. they are calling it a meeting. they will talk about syria. if there is one area where the united states and russia can cooperate better is on syria. the system has broken down. our presence is based on isis. russia wants to prop up assad because they want to keep a toe-hold. >> if president trump gets russia to agree to get something for assad staying, russia and iran win. >> they will win. exactly. listen, you and i h...

Many veterans would very much look forward to. >> barbara, great to see thank you so much. to get perspective on all of this, colonel layton is with us now. let's start with the troops. what would it mean to pull all u.s. troops off the peninsula? >> that would be really tough from a strategic standpoint because that is our toe hold on to mainland asia. if you don't have u.s. troops in korea, then you haveo have another line of defense. it could be japan, where of course there are already a considerable number of troops there, it could be guam, we have military bases there, it could be somet...

With regard to what this means and how this might be absorbed, it is in fact the case when it comes to culture, when it comes to media, when it comes to art and increasingly when it comes to corporate america, the idea that we should treat everybody with respect, we should treat everybody with dignity, that everybody counts, everybody matters, those ideas have gained a big foothold there. in our politics we're seeing a backlash against some of those ideas and people who don't run big corporations and who don't have a toe hold in hollywood fired back and fought back at the ballot box in 2016. i...

Campaign, to gain influence, gain a toe hold in the trump campaign. so that makes all of these activities by torshin and their entourage very much squarely within the mandate of mueller's brief. >> jill, how rich a vein is this that michael is describing, the relationship between the national rifle association and russia? there have been a number of stories about this and what lobbying may or may not have happened? >> it's very interesting in terms of the nra, what it means for its own existence and what influence russia may have on it, although the evidence they come forward with, it's a very...