will to defend them. trump called russia and china rival powers who seek to challenge american influence, values and wealth but stopped short of calling out moscow for its election meddling. nic robertson is live in moscow. good to see you. is moscow reacting to the document that it laid out this national security strategy or the words from the president. what are they saying? i think it s a little bit of both. referring to the document is long and complicated. but the overview is pretty clear. it s imperial. he says this is clearly the united states rejects a multiparallel world, but he did say, and this seems to be a reference to what president trump actually said, that there are some small possibilities of positiveness, if you will. he said what president trump said that where president putin
anti-immigrant, anti-muslim protesters are ginning stuff up, are they taking direction from moscow? is moscow kind of piggybacking off of what they do? i don t think that relationship is clear at all yet. and do you is it your sense that that s a figure outable thing? it s one thing to not know now. it s another thing to know whether or not this sort of activity leaves breadcrumbs that anybody is going to follow? yes, this should be the online propaganda. a mixed metaphor. well, you helped to advance the story in a way that makes me feel super creepy, but also better informed. noah schactman, editor for the daily beast. appreciate it. all right. we ll be right back. stay with us.
are they taking direction from moscow? is moscow kind of piggybacking off of what they do? i don t think that relationship is clear at all yet. and do you is it your sense that that s a figure outable thing? it s one thing to not know now. it s another thing to know whether or not this sort of activity leaves breadcrumbs that anybody is going to follow? yes, this should be the online propaganda. a mixed metaphor. well, you helped to advance the story in a way that makes me feel super creepy, but also better informed. noah schactman, editor for the daily beast. appreciate it. all right. we ll be right back. stay with us.
none. bill: is there any doubt at the white house? look, the president said back in january that he thought that this was probably driven by the russians. i don t think that we have been quiet or inconsistent on that fact. the bigger piece is protecting and making sure things like this don t happen again. that s where our focus is looking at how we can maintain voter integrity moving forward. it s one of the reasons we support voter i.d. laws and protecting our system across the board. bill: i get it on voter id law but this is moscow, and this is putin. and what are you prepared to say? and, bill, this is america. bill: what are you prepared to say. any time we get challenged by them, i think it s time for america to step up and say not here, not in our country. and i think that is what we are looking at is how do we put safeguards in place to make sure things like this don t happen again. bill: i get it. but what are you actively doing now to make sure putin doesn t d
plan. some grand bargain with vladimir putin was always the plan. why are we talking around it? yeah, we re just seeing the payoff now, nicolle. putin is popular at home because he s getting his way. he put lavrov and kislyak into the oval office. they ve been banned from the oval office of president obama, right? previous presidents. since 2015. that s right. look at what happened in brussels this past week. this is moscow s dream to see an american ally stand in front of and not invoke article 5. why isn t there any question anymore, why isn t there a debate in the country whether or not putin was involved in the outcome of we have is to break this down a little bit. as kelly noted, the white house publicly does not want to touch the issue of russia. keir portrayed it as putin stating i d like better relationships with rush slsia bf you peel the pr layers back, russia and the trump team have very good relations. it s paying off for vladimir putin. i want to bang m