hackers had the foot hold they needed to manipulate or shut down our power plants. i m joined by malcolm nance, msnbc terrorism analyst and david ignatius with the washington post. david, i want to start with you. why is russia behaving like tonya harding like we can t compete with the russians, i mean with the americans. we re going to do all the dirty tricks we can pull to slow them down and humiliate them. putin has a chip on his shoulder, he is angry seeking to restore russia as a significant world power. by bringing us down. so putin experience is that every place he s pushing, he s succeeding. there s been very little to stop him. it s obvious absent that that stop putin keeps going. i think that s what s finally become clear to britain, to france, to germany, and to the u.s. is that implicit because they can t compete with us gdp and innovation and technology?
syria and iraq and what is going on in yemen and israel and palestine. if the united states evacuates that position, does not hold sway between the various parties, what happens then? does that mean russia is the party that holds sway in the middle east. yeah, i m not sure the russia has the interest to have stability. they have their own thing they want to have foot hold in syria and in order to do that, they need to keep good relations with hezbollah forces and with iranian forces. now they would not intervene. even if this deteriorates into an all-out war and israel from its side, when it is left alone, it is already proven in the past that it would act, just ten years ago, ali, israel discovered the north korean and iranian money are building a nuclear reactor in syria. prime minister at that time appealed to president bush, please strike. the president declined and israel destroyed the reactor. so we re on the verge of a very dangerous deterioration for an
investigation going to be those investigators at the department of justice to look at the money trail. sean: unbelievable. we will learn more about that. both you and john agree. i see you shaking your heads. congressman gates, we don t have enough uranium, congressman. the idea that fbi director at the time mueller knew because we had the informant about bribery, extortion, kick backs, money laundering and this is nearly 18 months before ciacchellaous signs off on the uranium one deal, knowing vladimir putin wanted a foot hold foot hold in our industry? it s mind numbing that this could have ever happened? incident indicates, sean you would have to have improper influence to end up with these facts. real question whether or not there is going to be any consequences. clintons are used to having a different standard of justice applied to them than applied to the american people. that s why i filed
differently. vladimir putin has propped up the assad regime, enabling iran to gain a stronger foot hold in syria. i just don t think we see the world the same way as the russians and it s a great challenge. there are very limited places where we ve been able to work together. in space, for example, which is fine. but i think it s a real challenge. i had a russian contact years ago who told me that the way they looked at the united states, you know, if we had a really nice house and the russians house was dilapidated, they d burn ours down so we could live in misery together. that s kid of the way they approach it and that s the way they want things to be. if things are bad in the united states, then it doesn t reflect so poorly on russia. putin i m sure will be telling his own people that we re throwing stoenes from our glass house, city on an exceptional hill. he s very strongly critical of us for his own regime security. if putin is accused of corruption, he ll look at the u.s. an
bigger foot hold in terms of influence on iraqi affairs. the iranians, they don t have actually there are no iranian malitias in iraq. there are many and very powerful trained iraqi militias that played a critical role in the war against isis. i spent a lot of time with those, and their leaders would tell us that for instance it was much better to have four iranian advisors with them in the field, as i saw and met, than 400 american advisers sitting in baghdad in the green zone. they would tell us for instance, that when the iraqi government would request weapons from the americans it would take months if not years to arrive. when they asked for equipment from the iranians, it would take three days, so the iranians have huge influence here that goes