the u.s. state department has awarded a no-bid contract for security at the embassy, $2.8 billion contract. that curt contract has gone to, quote, a private russian company that grew out of a security business co-founded by vladimir putin s former kgb boss, a veteran spy, who spent 25 years planting agents in western security services. quote, security guards at the american embassy in moscow and at u.s. consulates in st. petersburg, yes cattierinburg and vladivostok will be provided by elite security holdings, a company closely linked to former top kgb. his name is victor budanov. he and vladimir putin worked closely together as kgb officers. he has been vocally support of president putin. he helped start the firm. it s now run by his son, dmitry.
state department, under secretary of state rex tillerson. according to this new reporting, the u.s. state department has awarded a no-bid contract for security at the u.s. embassy in moscow, it s a no-bid contract, $2.8 billion contract, awarded without competition. that security contract has gone to, quote, a private russian company that grew out of a security business cofounded by havladimir putin s former kgb boss, a veteran spy who spent 25 years planting say gents in western security services. quote, security guards at the american embassy in moscow and at u.s. consulates in st. petersburg and vladivostok will be provided by elite security holdings, a company closely linked to former top kgb. his name is victor budanov. he and vladimir putin worked closely together as kgb officers. he has been vocally support of president putin. he helped start the firm.
ready to start construction on our new embassy in moscow in 1979, the sure fact that that embassy would be a target of advanced russian spying operations was very much on american officials minds. it was very much in american news. i mean, this was this was a front and center concern about building a new embassy in moscow. not just because u.s. and russian spies were always targeting each other, but also because, right before we started construction, we had just discovered a major russian intelligence operation for them to spy on our existing facilities in moscow. this is a news report from 1978, the year before we started building the new embassy. part of the reason i want to show this is because it s relevant to this story, but part of the reason i want to show it is because of the amazing graphics in this news report. watch. the most recent soviet/american rift involves the discovery of yet another soviet listening device in the american embassy in moscow. events of this kind a
president to do that, but the 25th amendment allows congress a role in this too. yes. good evening, lawrence. that s right. you know as well to discuss the 25th amendment. i find that most americans are not familiar with it, at least not the article 4 of the 25th amendment. which empowers the cabinet or alternatively, a body created by congress to determine whether the president is physically and/or mentally fit to discharge the powers and exercise the authority of the office, and i think the time has come. i truly believe president trump is laboring under a sick psyche, that he is mentally impaired. these outrageous statements of this week, these incendiary statements that have brought us for the first time in 50 years, seemingly to the brink of nuclear warfare. they are intolerable, and add to the evidence that the president is mentally unstable. not fit to discharge the office that he holds. least of all, the office of commander in chief. i want to listen once again tonight to t
the powers and exercise the authority of the office, and i think the time has come. i truly believe president trump is laboring under a sick psyche, that he is mentally impaired. these outrageous statements of this week, these incendiary statements that have brought us for the first time in 50 years, seemingly to the brink of nuclear warfare. they are intolerable, and add to the evidence that the president is mentally unstable. not fit to discharge the office that he holds. least of all, the office of commander in chief. i want to listen once again tonight to this piece of video of the president s reaction to vladimir putin expelling 755 diplomats from the american embassy in moscow, and you as a republican senator who served