US - Russia Tensions Escalate - Encounter

Can the United States and Russia work together in Syria even as they back opposing sides in the conflict? Is the Kremlin interfering in the US presidential election on the side of Donald Trump given evidence suggesting Russian agents hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee? William Pomeranz, Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center and Jeffery Mankoff, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Russia and Eurasia Program, discuss these issues and their implications for US-Russia relations with host Carol Castiel.