employee of one, the sputnik, was on the beat just last night in his first interview since he spoke with the fbi. did this new interview you had with the fbi suggest they re looking at making sputnik potentially register as a foreign agent? absolutely. that was the purpose in the interview. it doesn t stop there. u.s. intelligence on russian hacking has already named sputnik and rt propaganda outlets. it is the russian outlet that paid mike flynn $35,000 to go to that gala where he infamously sat right next to vladimir putin. and flynn denied the russians paid him for going. were you paid for that amount? you would have to ask my, the folks i went over there. i ll asking you. you would know if you were paid. i went over there. it was a speaking event. it was a speaking event. what difference does that make? someone says, he s paid by the
did some meddling, but maybe other people and other countries did, as well. and so a lot of critics are clamoring for a much more definitive of statement from the president on this matter of russian meddling. and so far we haven t gotten it. athena jones, thank you. the russian president is revealing new details about his views on president trump after their big face-to-face heating. putin speaking out about trump bringing up railroad are shan hacki ha russian hacking. watch. translator: theu.s. president raised this question and devoted a lot of time to this issue. our position is well-known and i repeated it, there is no basis for thinking that russia interfered in the election process. what is important is that we agreed that the uncertain heity on these matters cannot exist especially in the future. joining me now from moscow, matthew chance.
but managing to have dialogue about syria, russian hacking, to begin to have the conversations that are necessary is important. this was something that donald trump very controversially said through the campaign last year, he wanted to do. today he did it. and as near as i can tell, the results of that are generally positive. what i worry about is a regional situation like syria leading to a war. we ve had that since world war one. that one thing can lead to another with. egos involved, it is a more severe threat. did you have the feeling faye we re not at the edge of any brinksmanship? what i can tell you, based on my reporting, i was in syria a week ago. this agreement today reached out of secret negotiations between the u.s. and russia to deconflict forces. after the shootdown of the syrian fighter jet about three
he specifically said i didn t do that early on because i knew that jeff sessions was going to be recusing himself. the senator asked why. he said there s facts that i can t discuss in here for why i knew he was going to have to recuse himself on the russia investigation. that has raised a lot of questions. what is he talking about? reports have come out since then saying that sessions obviously talked to russian officials during the campaign, even though he did not reveal this during his confirmation fight. he s going to be questioned about that in the senate next week for testimony. so yeah, i think what came out today, there s obviously a reason sessions recused himself. shepard: and lawmakers have learned that information. thanks, rachel. thank you. shepard: breaking news on fox news channel. the nsa contractor accused of leaking classified intel about russian hacking is about to go before a judge.
the host of access tv and jamie ruben, a former adviser to hillary clinton s 2016 campaign. so much to discuss, there may abe new tweet by the time we re done with this. before we talk about that, dan rather, i want to get your take on this federal contractor being charged with leaking nsa material on russian hacking. first of all this young woman s in a lot of trouble because they re invoking the espionage act of 1917. it goes all the way back to the period of world war i and leaking this kind of material for whatever purpose, whatever motive, can be a serious criminal event. so she s in some trouble. as far as what was revealed, it moves the story a little further in the direction of what we talked about so many times before, and that is, what is it that president trump and those around him are hiding about the russian involvement? now, this business of hacking in to the actual voting system as