ms. universe path gent to moscow in 2013, why would you bring it to moscow and heco sponsored it with a russian close to vladimir putin, has gotten big contracts from the kremlin. trump went over there for the path gent, putin sent him a note in an engraved box. that s one example of several where trump or people very laos to trump have very clear demonstrated relationships with people close to vladimir putin. and business is done in russian through these people. let s talk about michael flynn. we now know that he was working a foreign agent for turkey while working for the trump campaign. cn s learned that flynn s lawyer
as secretary of state hillary clinton questioned legitimacy of his election, ambassador. yeah. the russians clearly had it in for hillary and that s high, as we saw, they not only hacked our election but they were targeting the release of leaked information to undermine her candidacy. because they saw her as promoting the kinds of forces that we saw in ukraine bring down the government, putin felt we were going to do the same thing to him. he s obsessed with regime change and despite his swagger he s feeling very insecure about his grip on power looking down the road. but you re right, we re facing a challenge that s going to change the whole international order that we ve come to depend upon since the end of world war ii and it would be beautiful to cooperate with russia in fighting isis but we shouldn t do that at the expense of our values and principles. i would measure a new policy towards russia as one that actually solves the problems that russia s created in
set of contracts that trump campaign officials, friends have had with china, with germany, so, again, you have this puzzle of a country with which he has this one exceptional view with whom the campaign has had a series of unusual, perhaps unique contacts, and, as you say, maybe it s all smoke, but it sure say lot of smoke. but, ambassador, do we have a point here because you can t show the type of connections or as many contacts with other countries. if you look at the people associated with president trump through the course of the campaign, did you ask z that seem like an unusual amount of contract or normal for these other people? it seems kind of normal but behave no evidence at this point that anything took place it these contacts. i was more interested in the peculiar fondness for russia and treatment of russia like the
pelosi, a luncheon. so, you know, to just have a chart and show all these connections people know i m out of time, ron. except that russia wasn t trying to elect the democrats, wasn t trying to elect pelosi or none of those people. well he was trying something. those people aren t in power. pelosi is not the speaker and obama is no longer in the white house. i do appreciate that you know the president and have perspective on him and when the conversation fits we ll have you on to talk about that aspect of it. but on this particular subject these two segments that we did, we just didn t have room for it. thank you for that and by the way i want to say that kimberly has a piece ought on article called u.s. spies live in fear of trump s next tweet. so make sure you check out that next article. thank you all. we re coming right back. russia s ambassador talked with a lot of people on team trump. lots of smoke but no fire yet. what does it mean for the relationship between t
did vladimir putin use his power to elect donald trump? that s the question behind our new special report the most powerful man in the world. i can t wait to see this. you interviewed dimitrii peskov. you ask him about the trump associates meeting with the russian ambassador sergei kisly kislyak. so what was it the russian ambassador sergei kislyak was talking to so many of donald trump s associates about? this is his job. he was talking about bilateral relations. he was talking about what is going on in the united states, so we have a better understanding in moscow. this is what has been performed by every ambassador of russia abroad, every ambassador by the