this office. >> it's not fancy, but it's the oval office. >> a russian-english dictionary and a fidget spinner. >> thank you, everybody. strong hands. ♪ the following is a cnn special report. winston churchill famously said of russia it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. prime minister churchill, meet vladimir putin. ♪ >> he's very much of a leader. he is doing an amazing job.

so smart. >> he was a kgb agent. by definition he doesn't have a soul. >> vladimir putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer. >> test richest man in the world. ones of billions of dollars of wealth. >> what does he want from trump? >> putin is going to eat him like a sandwich. >> would rather have a puppet as president. >> you're the puppet. >> just how powerful is he? >> putin has an untrammeled authority. >> i don't see any checks on his power. >> so powerful, he apparently tried to rig the american election. >> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose. >> he despised hillary clinton. >> whom would you like better? vladimir putin is not a friend to democracy. he is a crook. >> actual the strange summit between donald trump and vladimir putin in helsinki, americans are asking, what did

putin get? and what more does he want? and is he really the most powerful man in the world? december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dresden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the

crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down. police weren't going to help and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. >> finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. >> vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of

the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in the basement at a furnace shoveling documents as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> they are burning the secret files so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went outside and faced the mob by himself. there are armed guards inside, he told them. they will shoot you. >> and he's able to bluff his way out of there and tell the crowd don't try it here. you're going to get hurt. >> putin's threat worked. the mob dispersed. >> this is the drama that stays

with putin all the time. the fear of popular uprising. ♪ >> vladimir putin quells that fear with absolute control. ♪ this is what control looks like. ♪ in one of the world's busiest cities the streets are emptied for vladimir putin's motorcade. ♪ 12 million people simply disappear on putin's inauguration day. ♪

in may, with his usual grandiosity, putin assumed the presidency of russia for a fourth time. he won the way he always does, overwhelmingly. putin's chief opponent was otherwise occupied. opposition leade eer was arrest while leading protests against the russian president. much of this was not seen on russian television. >> for 94% of russians, their main source of news is television. if it didn't happen on television, it didn't happen. >> putin controls television. there's absolutely no critical words about vladimir putin on the russian airwaves, none, not one word. >> putin controls everything in russia. >> putin has an untrammeled

authority. >> i don't see any checks on his power. >> he is able to make singular rapid decisions. the absolutism is unlike anything i've ever seen in russia. >> all that power is propped up by an astonishing approval rating, over 80%, and that's according to american pollsters. >> donald trump wins the presidency. >> but when the united states elected a new president. >> donald john trump. >> it looked like russia had fallen for a new leader. there were toasts all over moscow. at the parliament, known as the duma. on talk shows. and at bars. >> we are the champions of the

world. >> but one man seemed utterly unsurprised by trump's victory. >> he's happy to take credit, and that means that he won the u.s. election, the man who is simultaneously president of russia and in charge of the united states. >> at the heart of all this are deadly serious questions. does vladimir putin have some kind of hold over donald trump? we simply don't know. but one reality is now cryst crystal-clear. american intelligence has established that putin interfered with our election to help donald trump. mr. putin did not want to speak

about this. but his closest aid, dmitry peskov did. >> you're humiliating yourself saying a country can intervene in your election process. america, a huge country, the most powerful country in the world. this is simply impossible. >> we will get at the truth of all this. but to do that, we need to g back. to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. >> i think that down deep in putin, there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union because it wasn't just the soviet union. it was the russian empire. >> putin returned home from his

kgb posting in 1990, to a country he did not recognize. the ussr had been transformed by mikhail gorbachev and his policy of openness known as glasnost. >> a lot of things happened very quickly. >> big mac is big mac. >> coca-cola, coca-cola. >> a romance with things western. >> freedom came fast, and it exposed the rot at the heart of soviet communism. across the soviet union hundreds of thousands of people began demanding democracy and national independence. it was once again what putin feared most.

the people rising up. and finally the people won. >> tonight in moscow at the kremlin the red flag of the failed soviet union at last came down and the flag of russia rose. >> 300 years of history erased. >> soviet institutions like the kgb simply ceased to exist. >> vladimir putin views the break-up of the soviet union as he says himself to be the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. >> it was a traumatic time, and it sparked a profound change in vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job, but putin clearly had big dreams.

he commissioned this rarely seen documentary about himself, presenting vladimir putin, the credits read, in power. weirdly the sound soundtrack from the broadway show "cats." the ambitious putin may already have been looking towards moscow because the russian people were desperate for strong leadership. under president boris yeltsin the new democracy was a mess. >> the entire soviet system, it just collapsed. >> the oligarchs, the men who profited on the spoils of communism became fantastically rich. >> mercedes-benz is selling more of its top line cars in russia than in all the rest of europe. >> but ordinary russians were sinking into desperate poverty.

there were dire food shortages, even starvation. >> translator: i don't know how to feed my kids without milk. i just don't know what we're going to do. >> president boris yeltsin was in charge, but he seemed increasingly unstable. ♪ >> he is drinking. ♪ he's barely being propped up. >> russians began calling for a new leader. >> they were tired of the embarrassments of yeltsin. >> waiting in the wings was vladimir putin. he had taken a job in moscow in the kremlin hierarchy. and he had risen through the ranks with lightning speed.

>> from city bureaucrat to kremlin superstar. >> he had just become acting prime minister when it became blindingly clear the country needed a new president. >> so yeltsin was ready to topple over, and they settled on putin because they knew that yeltsin could retire and not be put in jail. >> boris yeltsin was notoriously corrupt, but kremlin power brokers wanted to protect him. >> so the deal was made, the deal was made. >> december 31st, 1999. >> the surprise announcement from boris yeltsin that he is resigning as president and turning over power to his prime minister vladimir putin. >> in the very first moments of the 21st century, vladimir putin became president of russia.

his first words, we live in a competitive world and are not among its leaders. and right away putin began to change his country. he joined soldiers on the front lines of the war in chechnya. he reassured russians that better times were ahead. >> translator: i think we'll get paid, and we'll have work. >> the country quickly fell in love with vladimir putin. ♪ >> the number one song in russia was called "a man like putin." ♪ >> he's just very -- he's a beautiful man that you'll see. but the biggest surprise america also loved vladimir putin. president george w. bush thought

he'd found a kindred spirit. >> i looked the man in the eye. i found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. i was able to get a sense of his soul. ♪ >> even hollywood fell for the new russian president. he bonded with stars at a charity dinner. ♪ but the honeymoon would soon come to a crashing halt. >> he was a kgb agent. by definition he doesn't have a soul. >> so glad to see you.

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♪ how many times will she leave her mark? how many ways will she light up the world? this is the woman. >> at the heart of the hacking scandal that rocked the 2016 presidential election. >> ladies and gentlemen. >> was an old grudge. >> my mother, my hero and our next president hillary clinton. ♪ this is my fight song >> it went beyond ideology. it was personal. ♪ this is my fight song >> vladimir putin was not a fan of hillary clinton.

>> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose. he hated hillary clinton. >> prime minister, we have a lot of problems. >> the tension between the leaders had been brewing for years. >> in 2001 another american leader, george w. bush, vouched for putin. >> i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> thank you, thank you. >> but on the campaign trail in 2008 hillary had a different take. >> i could have told him he was a kgb agent. by definition he doesn't have a south. i mean, this is a waste of time, right? >> translator: recently mrs. clinton said that you, as a former kgb agent, by definition, can have no soul. >> putin's reply. statesmen shouldn't be guided by their hearts. they should use their heads. clinton had a lot of tough words for putin over the years. >> he's a very arrogant person to deal with.

we have to stand up to his bullying. he is somebody who will take as much as he possibly can. >> but it was what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. it began with the arab spring protests early that year. the kind of popular uprising that putin dreaded. >> he begins to see himself through the eyes of hosni mubarak. >> mubarak of egypt was facing prosecution. syria's bashar al assad was on the ropes. libya's strongman moammar gadhafi met a particularly gruesome fate, brutally killed after begging for his life. putin may have feared the same bloody fate for himself.

just a few weeks later, rebellion arrived in russia. tens of thousand rallied in the streets of moscow. the biggest protest there since the fall of the soviet union. >> people were hanging off lamp posts. people were in the streets. it was really shocking. >> putin was now living the same nightmare he had endured as the kgb officer in east germany in 1989. this time in his own backyard. and he wasn't even president at the time. he was prime minister. having handed the presidency over to his associate, dmitry medvedev. >> as the winter went longer and longer and got colder and colder the protests got bigger and bigger. as putin saw people turning

against him, hillary clinton weighed in. >> the russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted. >> when putin hears something that, i imagine he hears bush talking about saddam hussein. he hears that as they are coming for me. they are trying to dry me from -- drive me from power, and what the hello health do you know about me and whether or not our people should have their voices heard? i'll tell you if they should have their voices heard. >> russians had a lot of reasons to be angry. that fall, it was announced that putin would run for president again, for a third time. that means he could potentially rule russia until 2024. >> some people said, oh, my god,

i'm going to die with this guy in power. >> a few months later, the elections for russia's parliament were a farce. >> we do have serious concerns about the conduct of the elections. >> hillary clinton called out the election rigging. i don't think she realized quite how badly that was going to go down. >> with his back against the wall putin turned the tables. he blamed the protests on hillary clinton. claiming that she was the one who incited them with her complaints about the election. >> there are growing restrictions on the exercise of fundamental rights. >> quote, unquote, she sent a signal, that was his words. >> putin's strategy propelled

him to victory. in march 2012 he won re-election handily. fighting back tears after a tense fight to maintain his power. he may have won the day but vladimir putin never forgot about the woman who had kicked him when he was down. >> do you think he had resolved you interfered with my elections, two can play at this game? >> i think that that's the line of thinking that led him to the intervention. i mean, i'm totally convinced

that russians were meddling and intervening covertly. >> u.s. intelligence concluded that putin personally ordered a campaign to influence the american election in part because he holds a grudge for clinton for her actions in 2011. the alleged operation was sophisticated. an army of internet trolls, bankrolled by millions of dollars, launched attacks against clinton, including ads in key, swing states. >> they're smart enough to know that social media is the way to touch americans personally. >> 13 russians have been indicted in connection to the operation. and hackers pillaged the e-mails of the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign, releasing embarrassing

information with devastating results. >> another batch of stolen e-mails. >> this latest leak, a trump dream come true. >> donald trump was delighted by clinton's misfortunes. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able the find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> donald j. trump will become the 45th president. >> in the end, the american election went putin's way. >> i just received a call from secretary clinton. >> hillary clinton was negative about our uncountry and attitude. >> it wouldn't be bad to get along with russia. >> and to the contrary, the other candidate, donald trump, said, we have to find some understanding. >> even putin. >> who would you like better?

>> hillary clinton suffered one of the most shocking defeats in american history. >> i know how disappointed you feel because i feel it, too. >> at least in part some observers say because of the alleged hacking operation. >> this is painful, and it will be for a long time. >> putin had apparently avenged his old grudge. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> yeah. >> and he may have achieved even more. >> the 45th president of the united states. >> if donald trump is in some way compromised, if the russian government has something that it feels has on him in terms of leverage, that's a very serious thing. i don't suggest for a second that i have the answer to this question, but we can't just let this matter drop. up next -- >> a prominent russian opposition figure has been shot and killed. >> four of the shots him him in the back.

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february 27th, 2015, nearly midnight. a man and woman walk across the bridge right next to the kremlin. a highly monitored area littered with surveillance cameras. all those cameras, but amazingly this grainy faraway video is the only footage that exists of a critical moment in recent russian history. inside the circle of what a

moscow tv station purports to be boris nemtsov and his girlfriend. nemtsov was, of course, the well-known russian opposition leader who led the protests in 2011. the station says that while the snowplow hides the two from cameras view nemtsov was killed, shot four times in the back. >> a prominent russian opposition figure has been shot and killed. >> four of the shots hit him in the back. >> right out in the open, just blocks from the kremlin. >> so who murdered boris nemtsov? vladimir putin condemned the killing calling it shameful and impudent, and five chechens are found guilty in connection with the murder. but many doubts remain. >> the assassination was extremely professional. >> russian-born journalist julia joffey said only one group could be that professional. >> nemtsov's girlfriend, who was

walking with didn't realize he had had been shot until the car was driving off. it was quick and professional and nobody has that training outside the government. >> in 2016, senator john mccain took it one step further. >> vladimir putin is a thug and a killer and a murderer and a kgb agent. he had boris nemtsov murdered in the shadow of the kremlin. >> this is personal insult. this is lousy behavior from a politician. >> that is putin's top aide and spokesman dmitry peskov. >> that's nonsense. it's nonsense. there's nothing to comment on. >> over the course of putin's time in power his regime has been accused of involvement in the deaths of many of its critics, including the journalist anna politskaya and the former kgb agent litvinenko. some russia experts say there are dozens more like them.

and then, there are those who live to tell. the man seen in this surveillance footage at a u.k. convenience store is sergei schiphol, an exrussian spy. he moved here to salisbury, england, after he was convicted of selling secrets to britain's mi-6. in march, skripal and his daughter, julia, were found unconscious on a bench in salisbu salisbury. police concluded that the pair had been killed with a nerve agent. u.s. authorities placed the blame squarely on one person. >> president putin acting in this way. >> putin shot back, calling the

accusations drivel and nonsense. tv went further, blaming president putin himself. back to that night on the bridge -- the allegations that putin might have played a role in boris' murder, may have been >> the ukraine report was released after the murder. there was an earlier report published in 2012, that also was embarrassing for putin.

he claimed the president had 43 planes, 15 helicopters and 4 yachts at his disposal. including one super yacht. then, there are the palaces. the report also says there were 20 palaces available to putin at any time. one of the palaces known in the press simply as putin's palace, was set to be worth $1 billion. >> this is not true. this is perverted commenting of reality. >> putin's spokesman says every world leader, especially a leader of the nuclear power like russia or the united states, has access to state-owned planes and helicopters that are safe and have secure communications. >> of course he uses these vehicles, these planes, these residences but it's not his property. the rumors about his wealth, the rumors about the palaces has nothing to do with reality. it's just lies.

>> the rumors of putin's wealth, some of them are simply staggering. >> some people, including myself believe he's one of the richest men in the world. >> bill browder was one of the former investigators in russia. we talked in 2015. >> you really think putin is the richest man in the world? >> i really think that. >> estimate his network. >> $200 billion. >> really? >> i believe that it's $200 billion. >> that will make putin wealthier than the man whom forbes says is the world's wealthiest. jeff bezos. >> all these rumors, all of the accusations of billions and billions of dollars, his fortune, this is not true. don't believe in that. he's got nothing, he's got what

he rides in his personal financial decoration every year. >> putin's most recent financial decoration says that he personally owns less than half an acre of land. a roughly 900 square foot apartment and a 200 square foot garage in which maybe he puts the vehicles listed in that document. two vintage russian sedans, a russian four by four and a trailer like this one. the document does not say how much putin has in the bank or investments. former top u.s. treasury official, adam szubin talked to the cbc. >> i'm not in the position to give you figures. he draws a state salary of something like $110,000 a year, that's not an accurate statement of the man's wealth. >> we may not know exactly how much putin is worth. but we do know this, vladimir putin is remarkably popular in russia. why? we'll tell you when we come

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partly, it's the cult of putin. he has mastered the art of the manly photo op. he rides horse back bare chested. finds ancient treasures under water. flies planes, fights forest fires. >> there's something ridiculous about a middle aged world leader riding around shirtless on a horse like conan the barbarian after a dozen doughnuts. he thinks this looks good. >> everything that we find ridiculous about vladimir putin is very appealing in a media universe that you control absolutely. >> perhaps the foundation of the putin juggernaut is a tourism where ever you live. it's the economy stupid. after the years of boris yeldson, putin stepped in and stabilized the country.

he rode the wave of ever rising oil prices. translated into rising wages and soaring stock. then, in 2014, oil prices slumped. soon off came western economic sanctions. vladimir putin has navigated hard times well. he has slashed social spending, allowed the ruble to fall and his central bank has kept inflation in check. putin is a fiscal conservator. >> aspect of wealth, closer to dubai than moscow 30 years ago. just an amazing transformation. >> adding to economics, putin's secret's sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2004, after an invasion that shocked the world. >> bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small.

>> vladimir putin grabbed a piece of ukraine for russia. >> that's what adolf hitler did in the 1930s. we thought those days were gone. >> but it all looked very different through russian eyes. >> i have never met a russian who accepted the notion of ukraine as a totally separate state. >> of course, many ukrainians deeply resented the invasion. but not russians. they see it as a revival of a deep sense of power and national destiny. >> putin has given them their pride pack. russia is once again, a great power. ♪ >> putinism is an ideology of conservative, of anti-westernism, but above all, of power.

putin might say, he has made russia great again. sound familiar? >> we will make america great again. >> usa, usa. >> like putin, trump has used nationalism to boost his support. but many believe that donald trump is no vladimir putin. >> putin is a much more practiced, subtle, cunning player. he's playing, in poker terms, a couple of deuces at the highest level. he's reasserted russia on the world stage from a position of relative weakness, like nobody i can think of. that's an amazing feat of geopolitics. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep.

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finally, here are my thoughts on he whom we have called the most powerful man in the world. first, let me explain that title. the united states and china, for that matter, are more powerful countries than russia, of course. but the power of a head of state is determined both by the country's strength and the capacity he or she has to exercise that power, unilaterally, unconstrained by other institutions, parties or political forces. and combining the two metrics, it's easy to see why vladimir putin raises to the top. he has created what he calls a vertical of power, unlike any we have seen in other great nations. as the russian chess grand

master, garry kasparov has noted, he himself a critic of putin, the entire structure of power rests on one man. when the czar died, you now how his son would the elevated. when the communist of the standing party died, they would select a successor. but when putin dies -- i almost said if -- what will happen? no one knows. to understand duet putin, you ho understand russia. that country has seen war, communism, poverty, collapse. then comes in vladimir putin, who ushers in two decades of stab stability, increase standing of living. increase prominence in the world.

russians do have immense national pride. russia is, after all, the largest country on the planet. 48-times lar s larger than germ. it encompasses 11 time zones. it straddles europe, asia and the northeast. and last week with the summit in helsinki, putin has accomplished his goal. after the press conference after the summit, donald trump gave the most embarrassing performance by an american president i have witnessed or read about. his efforts to talk his way out of his troubles, make him seem more absurd. >> the sentence should have been, i don't see why it wouldn't be russia, sort of a double-negative. >> what's brought up by this performance, is the other strain

in the narrative. donald trump said that having good relations with russia would be a good thing. >> wouldn't that be a great thing? >> he's not alone. barack obama and hillary clinton embraced the idea of a reset in relations with the russian election. it was one of the many efforts in conciliation, including one from george w. bush. >> russia is not the enemy of the united states. >> but every reset failed. it's time to recognize that r h russia is not seeking to get into the order. it seeks to undermine that order. as he destabilizes the west, he understands the internal divisions and dischord and the gaping openness. he understands the gra jillty of

institutions like european union and nato. in other words, vladimir putin understands us very well. the question is, do we, does donald trump, really understand him? federal agents have secret recordings of the u.s. president made before he took that office. and one involves the silencing of a former playboy model. we'll explain. we'll take you to the state of missouri where there is much sadness. we'll hear from a woman who lost nine family members when their tour boat sank. and the long awaited sequel to the abba musical hit theaters. welcome to our viewer here in the u.s. and all around the world. we're coming to you live