we re learning tonight the u.s. government has hired a private firm in russia to provide security guards at the american embassy in mow moscow. security guards in moscow. one source is reporting that they are hiring one who has become the head of the soviet counterintelligence. i want to talk about all of this now with cnn national security analyst steve hall, the retired chief of cia russian operations. fascina fascinating, steve. thank you for joining us here. it sounds like a bad idea, but you say that the reality is, the fsb, today s version of the kgb, already has control of pretty much any russian who works at the u.s. embassy anyway? yeah, it is a little counterintuitive, don, it sounds like a very bad idea, right? i think what you have to understand are two things. the situation on the ground in russia, basically that vladimir putin controls everything that happens in that
this is the lack of common sense when it comes to dealing with the russians, which he says goes all the way to the top of our government. do you agree with that? there is a lot of different layers to that. in general, i would say yes, and it s not just our government and this administration. i mean, i ve said many times i think probably on your show that there have been a lot of american presidents, former president obama and bush to start with who said yes, we can work things with the russian government, there is a prevailing sense, a very western sense that hey, we need to cooperate with the russians and work together on this. but on something like this when you talk about about embassy security, it s very, very difficult. the americans, the state department, the american side often times proposed to the russians for example, that we use an american company, an american private security firm to provide this middle layer of security instead of russians. the russians have flatly deni
figure in terms of do you really want the baggage that comes with a steve bannon endorsement. on the flip side of it, steve doesn t give a crap. any time you have controversy in play, he does the exact opposite. any time there is a controversy, any time there was a question about inaccuracies, things maybe you should not do he would run towards it, he would refuse to back down and believes in fighting even if it s a fight that no one else would take, he relishes doing it. reverend, i have to ask you, why are so many evangelicals still supporting moore? and what is your message to them tonight? i would like to challenge and invite evangelical leaders and indeed, the larger faith community to look at a passage in the new testament, galatians chapter 6. and the first three versus provide very clear direction for what should happen
breitbart would pick stories and sometimes selectively drive what it wanted to see in the world. now, he is skipped over that editorializing. he has become a character. he can pick these fights. he seems not unlike the president he once served. more interested in content controversy programming than actual governing. steve doesn t care about keeping the republican majority or growing republican majority with mitch mcconnell and the rest of the people at the capital do. he is a prof okay tour. is he a disruptor? when people in silicon valley say that, they have their own product. what is his product? his product are the league of extraordinary candidates that he s trotting out the challenge republican incumbents nationwide. and you know it is being
kurt, if he wanted a fight, he got one. the mcconnell allies are saying what many others have said. that steve bannon is a white nationalist. is this what he wants? this is exactly what he wants. in steve s paradigm, he believes if you don t say anything about him or breitbart, then they re not being effective. so mitch mcconnell is that his allies are giving them what he wants. they ll spend hundreds of thousands or millions to give to a political ad campaign. that will only serve to elevate steve and they re not very popular either. they ve already rejected the establishment party by electing donald trump as president in the first place. since they ve become president. they haven t gotten anything done. they have a republican house senate and the white house and the legislative accomplishments to speak of. it has only fueled the anger and rage that. you say fueling.