infamous e-mails to donald trump jr., e-mails that promised dirt on hillary clinton. and emin, the singer, would later help goldstone set up the trump tower meeting with russians. and there was one more mystery guest, who would later show up at trump tower. ike kaveladze. trump wined and dined all of them but he was after a bigger well, we ve invited president. putin. i know he d like to go. before the miss universe deal, donald trump almost never spoke of vladimir putin. it was 2013 when he seemed to address an intense admiration for the russian strong man. he s put himself a lot of people would say he s put himself at the forefront of the world as a leader. he s done an amazing job of showing certain leadership our people have not been able to
russian ambassador. they discussed setting up a back channel with moscow at russia s own embassy. you have to say that raises a red flag and say, well, why wouldn t this reported? kushner claimed he wanted to discuss syria and said the arrangement was never set up. some in u.s. intelligence believe that kislyak was one of russia s top spies in washington. did you recruit any members of the trump administration? december 13th, 2016, kushner meets with sergei gorkov, the head of a sanctioned russian bank that s often funded putin s pet projects, like the sochi olympics. the bank was also used as a cover by a russian spy in new york city who went to prison for espionage. the fbi now says it has busted a russian spy ring. he was one of three russian spies. and gorkov himself attended the training academy for russian
this is what you dealt with. let s put to the side the whole discussion of why the attorney general didn t disclose and what he should do. let s just put all of that to the side right now. when you hear about these meetings what are the relevant questions and considerations from your perspective? first i doubt seriously that he s a staff officer for either of the russian intelligence services. he is an accomplished ambassador and the question is a bit moot because importantly he is well conne connected and you don t get to without knowing putin himself and being well connected. he is clearly also very well connected in the united states. it does appear he was doing his job as a good graeaggressive
video of russian cities, the terror group threatens attacks there very soon. what the video does not mention is the russian passenger jet downed over the sinai peninsula in egypt. still, with growing evidence, the loss of metrojet 9268 was the result of a bomb planted by isis, u.s. officials and lawmakers are anticipating a firm russian response. knowing putin, i don t think he s going to back away from this. i think he s going to ratchet up rather than ratchet down and those people in the sinai responsible are probably thinking about where is the biggest rock they can get under. reporter: administration officials say they are in contact with russian counter parts but moscow has not detailed any military plans. to date, russia s air strikes in syria focused on defending the forces of bashar al-assad rather than targeting isis. frustrating u.s. officials. both sides are now taking part in peace talks in vienna
been fraying lately in terms of the middle east because of all the problems, but it s been one of the mainstays of some semblance of stability in the middle east for almost 40 years. so i think we got to maintain that presence. senator angus king, thank you very much for joining us. i ll just add and i m sure you agree, knowing putin, knowing the history of russia, if in fact this is isis responsible for blowing up that russian plane killing all those russians, get ready for a very, very firm, tough russian response. we ll see what they do. senator, thanks again. thank you, wolf. we re continuing to follow the breaking news. we re going to go live to that airport in sharm el sheikh. that s now at the center of this investigation. did someone there actually help plant a bomb that may have brought down that russian passenger jet?