the way it deals with its opponents. all of those things are extremely important for understanding the degree to which russia can be trusted, the degree to which it s a reasonable interrer in the world. we ignore those and assume we can deal with russia. and that russia is the appropriate to have olympics in. but none of those things are really true. david, thank you very much for joining us. you re welcome. thank you very much. so why is msnbc making the olympics about politics or worse, is nbc taking siewdz? shouldn t bob costas, as david just said, stick to sports? joining us our political panel a.b. hill. byron york and u.s.a. today kirsten powers. kirsten, first to you, nbc making those statements, i mean in many ways profoundly nice things about president putin are any remotely true? i mean, maybe some of it is remotely true. but the overarching presentation is not true. i think the way they are trying to portray him is
0 the way it deals with its opponents. all of those things are extremely important for understanding the degree to which russia can be trusted, the degree to which it s a reasonable interrer in the world. we ignore those and assume we can deal with russia. and that russia is the appropriate to have olympics in. but none of those things are really true. david, thank you very much for joining us. you re welcome. thank you very much. so why is msnbc making the olympics about politics or worse, is nbc taking siewdz? shouldn t bob costas, as david just said, stick to sports? joining us our political panel a.b. hill. byron york and u.s.a. today kirsten powers. kirsten, first to you, nbc making those statements, i mean in many ways profoundly nice things about president putin are any remotely true? i mean, maybe some of it is remotely true. but the overarching presentation is not true. i think the way they are trying to portray him is this great statesman. one of the things that real
on the west. particularly the united states. offering asylum to national security agency leaker edward snow den, enticing ukraine to back out of a deal to join the european union. rush limbaugh is not letting nbc off the hook. why is everybody surprised that nbc news would lob praise over a soviet kgb leader. what do you think issue liberals think of communists? they re blood brothers. the communists were the peacemakers. american journalist david sater has spent-year-old living and working in russia. he has been critical of president putin. right before the olympics he was expelled from russia. coincidence or was this pay back? david joins us. nice to talk to you, david. hi. so, why did you get the boot from from russia? well, can i told you what i was told officially which was that the security services regarded that my presence on the territory of the russian federation was undesirable. so, that was the official reason. that was what was told to me. what they d
from the country. mr. putin, are you listening? probably not. cnn nic robertson is live in moscow with more. good morning, nic. morning, carol. this is one of those situations where you look at russian bureaucracy. it can be incredibly heavy handed and very dense to see your way through. david sater has explained this very clearly. he was told to come back to russia to apply for another visa. when he got back here, the paperwork he was supposed to get when he arrived back wasn t ready. that delayed him going on to the next office to get it processed. they told him he was too late when he got there. several days later, he went to court, accepted that he had broken the law, paid a fine, was told to leave the country. i hope you are keeping up with me here. it is complicated. that s the problem. when he finally left the country, applied for the visa again. a month later, guess what, on christmas day, he was told, you
that are no more than 20-30 feet from the river bank. government officials did know there were chemicals there. i don t know why, you know, nothing was done. let me ask you this, david. whenever i interview an official from west virginia, there is no impassioned anger over this. i m sure they are concerned. there doesn t seem to be a great deal of anger surrounding this accident. am i getting that wrong? reporter: i m not sure. there is anger and frustration from citizens around here. the governor has had press conferences almost well, every day since the leak. although and he has appeared at almost every one of them. several of them, he has gotten questions about the coal industry. he has gone to lengths to say, no, this was a chemical problem.