nbc news senior international correspondent live from moscow. keir, can you put meat on the bones of this story. we obviously know russia is nuclear armed and know how many nuclear arms they have and surprised vladimir putin mentioned it the other day declaring his invasion of ukraine but this move, is it symbolic or is it a reaction to the sanctions? reporter: yeah. around 6,000, just over 6,000 nuclear warheads. not all on missiles at the time obviously. a similar number held by the u.s. both russia and the united states are by far the largest nuclear powers in the world. we know that. i think, ali, this is a point where we just have to kind of ratchet back highhigh and frighten people and what s happening here, this kind of
stinks. i had a bird s eye view, i was her deputy when she was nominated. and i looked at that process, and no executive privilege ever asserted or anything like that. here you have 100,000 pages that are being upheld. that is not american, that is not a transparent process. you have two moments, in the process. first he was going to go bigger, and talked to other people that convinced him, ratchet back. look, judge kavanaugh who is a lovely man has the most to lose on this. these documents are going to come out. it would be a real shame if there is bad stuff that comes out after he is seated. is it? he has a lifetime appointment?
fingering donald trump in a criminal conspiracy and so on and now they are hiding these documents and the whole thing stinks. i had a bird s eye view, i was her deputy when she was nominated. and i looked at that process, and no executive privilege ever asserted or anything like that. here you have 100,000 pages that are being upheld. that is not american, that is not a transparent process. you have two moments, in the process. first he was going to go bigger, and talked to other people that convinced him, ratchet back. look, judge kavanaugh who is a lovely man has the most to lose on this. these documents are going to
probability that trump won t drain the swamp in washington but the swamp will drag trump in and that will bees end of his revolution that hasn t even started yet, so some doubts creeping in here in moscow that president trump will actually be able to forge a new relationship with russia. katy? interesting reaction. i want to ask you about something the telegraph is reporting today that the kremlin has told its official newspaper a warning essentially that excessive trumpophilia is not going to be good for the kremlin, that it might end up harming the kremlin. is that why his press conference wasn t played on state tv yesterday? reporter: yes, actually the kremlin ordered state tv to ratchet back, to pull back from some of its constant coverage of trump. in january, katy, trump was on state tv more than putin. that s not a good idea in an authoritarian state like russia,