what we saw in 2014-2015 is a huge increase in many russians leaving russia. reporter: this is brain drain. when the soviet union collapsed, a lot of people just left. but the ones leaving now are reportedly skilled people. and you are hearing more and more in focus groups that russians would like to see president putin allocating less money to the military and foreign adventures and more to social programs at home, infrastructure, a lot of the roads in this country are in great need of repair. he ll be under pressure to deal with that after helsinki. they will will be as president trump is preparing for this high-stake summit, activists are calling on him to put pressure on the russian president to release dozen of political and religious prisoners held in
rights groups is the issues don t appear to be on the summit agenda. so far president trump has made it quite clear he doesn t see any human rights problems in russia. that s troubling. i believe the rest of his administration does understand that. reporter: analysts say the overarching issue may be a low priority. for this administration, religious freedom is important. but it is not of paramount concern when there are burning geopolitical issues such as syria and ukraine. arms control. reporter: a silver linerring for human rights activists is the state department issue sad directive calling on russia to release political and religious prisoners. eric: house republicans grill
and clinton campaign in order to interfere in the 2016 election. here is the president on whether he would demand putin extradite those officials to the u.s. president trump: i might. i hadn t thought of that. but certainly i will be asking by the. this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. doug mcelway live in washington. reporter: some critics are questioning the timing of this indictment. is it an attempt to embarrass the president? others say the indictment is another small victory for the president. no drawing, no connection, no collusion thus far to the trump administration or trump campaign. i think democrats are arguing the president should cancel the summit. republican senator john mccain writes, quote, if president trump is not prepared to hold putin accountable the summit in
would join. here s what he said. they ve got a breakthrough that we are against everything attitude. they hate him so badly that it s all against trump. i think it s against any republican judgeship nomination, that they really hate trump and want to do everything they can to her charm. you agree with that? the vote ultimately is pro-or anti-term. it s obviously more anti-trump considering the main argument against kavanaugh for not voting for him is an election year. they focus on mitch mcconnell blocking merrick garland in 2016 during a presidential election year. he s still in his first term. a lot of the mms from democrat seemed to be hurting democrats more because now they are campaigning against donnelly, manchin, heitkamp in their own states and hurting their chances
world war ii. they don t want to hear that they are a foe. really, the foe for them is russia. and the concern that russia in its strong state where it is now, and feeling empowered will try to make a move, a power play move, territorial move on them. they don t want to see that happen. it s important to have the united states stand behind its european allies firmly. yes we do have issues on a variety of fronts with the germans and french. but that s not the same league as what we have with moscow. eric: russia is the foe. good to see you as always. arthel? arthel: days ahead of the president s meeting with president putin, special counsel robert mueller indicting 12 russian intelligence officials, accusing them of hacking the dnc