buildup appears to continue. putin is now on his fifth u.s. president. he could stay in office until 2036. tonight, over 150,000 russian troops are on ukraine s border pair there are also russian warships loaded with russian marines and tanks. these featuring rocket launchers. the tubes that looked like pipe organs. all set to end these exercises on sunday. after that, it s anyone s guess. only putin knows what happens next. in a russian s tit-for-tat move tossing russian diplomats from the russian embassy in moscow and announcing today that it has expelled the deputy u.s. ambassador of russia as payback, another sign of worsening relations. the leader of belarus said he s open to to letting it russian park missiles after these drills and on sunday. i m here tonight in the city
summit. this was not the first attempt at a back channel on the part of the incoming trump administration. you have to remember jared kushner talking with kislyak proposed that the trump team use the cystal housed within the russian embassy in moscow. the question is why? you only pursue back channels when front chan lds anels aren enough. you know who has the best systems? the united states. why was washington s systems not good enough or not secure enough or not proper for the trump team? that is the question. there are very few charitable explanations that explain this persistence. there is a line of reasoning that says if they were setting up a back channel they didn t have a back channel then they
you have to remember jared kushner talking with kislyak proposed that the trump team use the cystal housed within the russian embassy in moscow. the question is why? you only pursue back channels when front channels aren t good enough. you know who has the best systems? the united states. why was washington s systems not good enough or not secure enough or not proper for the trump team? that is the question. there are very few charitable explanations that explain this persistence. there is a line of reasoning that says if they were setting up a back channel they didn t have a back channel then they couldn t have been colluding. what do you make of that? it s an interesting argument. we don t know whether this was just the beginning of a back channel that they were trying to establish or if it was just part
for decades, conspiracy theories have questioned whether lee harvey oswald acted alone in killing john f. kennedy in dallas 54 years ago. in a newly released memo, j. edgar hoover suppressed concern they wouldn t believe he was the lone gunman. the thing i m concerned about is that mr. catsen back and having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. one document reveals the cia intercepted a call on oswald made to a kgb officer at the russian embassy in moscow less than two months before oswald shot kennedy. oswald spoken in broken russia. and documenting a separate conversation about oswald and two cubans. one said oswald must have been a good shot. a cuban intelligence officer
intercepted a call oswald made to a kgb officer at the russian embassy in moscow less than two months before oswald shot kennedy. oswald spoken in broken russia. and fbi documenting a separate conversation about oswald and two cubans. one said oswald must have been a good shot. a cuban intelligence officer said, oh, he was quite good. when asked why he said that, i knew him . they had a lot of information to suggest that this man, lee harvey oswald, was a danger. another cliffhanger, whether oswald worked for the cia. richard helms, deputy cia director under kennedy, was asked if lee harvey on oswald was a cia agent where the document suddenly ends without an answer. even linden b. johnson is said