the switch metaphor and the killing was all set for the match, right? it was there and it s probably a combination of things. some resentments that don t top overtime. a lot of the culture war issues that people have coalesced around. of course the two biggest ones have been permanent towards the political landscape are abortion and guns. but also, you know, all of a sudden transgender athletics has become a flash point issue when i wouldn t have predicted that. even a few months ago. all try brian it s gonna take a while and probably it s gonna take me a while to come up with
related? i mean, absolutely, don. i think the easiest way to think about this when you strip away all of the, you know, the american tendency to, you know, give everybody a fair shake. and yeah maybe they had these domain names because maybe they wanted to mauk some make some money, that s a very american and western awe proe approach things. but when you strip all that away and think about it like the russians would think about it, first of all there is a direct line between vekselberg and cohen. we might have this idea of corporate independence, and in america we do things a certain way. in russia it s a mafia. vekselberg was trying to do something here. my sense is because the alt-right issue was a flash point issue, i think a very significant oligarch, and by the way there s lots of jewish oligarchs, too. so that doesn t necessarily mean anything. they all work for putin. i think this particular oligarch decided what he was going to do was use this line that he had to get ahol
vexilberg was trying to do something here. my sense is because the alt-right issue was a flash point issue, i think a very significant oligarch, and by the way there s elected jewish oligarchs, too. so that doesn t necessarily mean anything. they all work for putin. i think this particular oligarch decided what he was going to do was use this line that he had to get ahold of these domain names which he might might be useful sometime in the future was a bit clumsy, so the thought is there wasn t a direct russian intelligence behind this. they probably would have been more sophisticated in covering their tracks. you ve got all these kinds part of the trump team leading back to russia. that s got to be the last word, matt. when we come back a close look at the man overseeing the russia investigation and what his chances are of being fired by the president.
cities of dara and homs. opposition groups say there have been executions and that the bodies of dozens of civilians have been found in a district near homs. president obama will be meeting with benjamin netanyahu on sunday. he told the biggest pro-israel lobby group that he is prepared to use force. he said america s diplomat pressure on iran will continue. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader, i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this monday, march 5th. chinese lawmakers are setting the political and economic agenda for the year ahead. their annual meeting is now under way in beijing. it was jaem s worst crisis since the second world war. one year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, we look at how the world s third biggest economy is still rebuildin
know, the pakistani intelligence service could have used that money a lot better fighting terrorists back in pakistan. look, the odds of floating around a little money like that, moving u.s. policy on kashmir are zero. kashmir is a flash point issue between india and pakistan. the last thing the united states is going to do is get in the middle of that issue because it would just probably anger both sides. matter of fact, there was, you know, there was a nut case argument when the obama administration came in, and people said, well, let s go solve the kashmir issue between india and pakistan, and then they ll both be great allies and help us fight al-qaeda. and, you know, people that know that issue said, what are you nuts? all you re going to do is get both sides angry at you. so the administration has stayed away from that as the bush administration did, you know, kind of like it s poison, and that s probably the right policy. so the notion that this council could actually do much ot