man in the eye. one day he will be found. he'll be found. >> that's all for this edition of dateline extra. i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. does the government have any compromising material on president trump and his family? >> does donald trump fear vladimir putin? personally i believe he does. why does he fear him? i don't know. >> he has loomed over the trump presidency. >> there's no doubt among the american intelligence agencies the cyber attacks on the american election in 2016 were ordered by vladimir putin. >> here it comes, fake news. here comes cyber attacks. it comes right out of an

intelligence officer's grain. >> the end of the soviet empire shooken to the core. >> he likes to tell the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. >> and paved his way of his rise to power. >> he gave us back the feeling of a country. >> people don't just get their hand slapped, they get their hand cut off. >> of course i'm afraid of putin. that's the price you pay for what you do in russian politics. >> vladimir putin is like the crime boss but he's a crime boss with nukes. this is guy who's more dangerous than the world has ever seen. >> he's ruled a nation of 144 million people for almost two decades. but even vladimir putin is sensitive to poll numbers.

in mid-2018 after announcing plans to raise the pension eligibility age he suffered a nearly 20% drop in his approval rating. so the intimidating president appealed to his fellow russians in a very modern way. starring in a reality show. featuring the man with an arsenal of approximately 7,000 nuclear weapons at his disposal kicking back with nature. of course, he's not the first tv star president. >> you're fired. get out of here. >> except unlike president trump putin first proved his mettle as an intelligence agent and ruthless politician. experience the russian leader seemed to use to his advantage when the two met in helsinki in july 2018. >> putin is disciplined. he doesn't do anything he hasn't prepared for. he's taken his measure of donald

trump. he's going to walk into a room with donald trump and know exactly what he wants, and he's going to know exactly to get it. trump is famously contrast as undisciplined. >> vladimir putin is someone who's operated on the world stage for decades. he knows international issues very well. he has seen presidents come and go, and i think he has been very, very skillful in terms of using his political acumen to his benefit. >> vladimir vladimir putin former kdb and current president of the russian federation, first elected in 2000 he's the longest serving russian leader since joseph stalin. >> he's corrupted by power because just imagine 18 years you're the czar. >> putin's former prime minister has been outspoken in his criticism of the russian leader.

>> russian is not a democratic country at war, and he's tried to built-up those institutions and mr. putin destroyed everything that was built-up. and now he wants foreign leaders to accept him and his regime. >> at the july 2018 summit vladimir putin became the only russian president in history to meet alone without advisers from either side with a sitting american president. while no one knows what transpired during their private meeting the press conference afterward held several revelations about putin's views of president trump. >> did you want president trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> there is speculation that putin was replying only to the first part of the question since he's vehemently denied

interfering in the election. but american national security agencies came to a different conclusion. >> intelligence agencies have all said not only did putin intervene in the elections, he intervened on the behalf of trump to combat putin's worst fear of hillary clinton becoming president of the united states. >> vladimir putin was responsible for directing the scope, the magnitude, the scale and intensity of that attack. >> former kgb agent and deputy agrees with the findings of american intelligence. >> putin made everything possible to help trump to be the american president. that's why i can believe in these accusations of russian hackers. >> tonight state sponsored russian tv is pouring praise on president vladimir putin, calling him a master of rhetoric, a more skilled negotiator than president trump. >> putin's diplomatic power play over president trump at the helsinki summit was a pivotal moment that reverberated around

the world. >> he showed he was not willing to stand up to the russian leader. and tonight foreign diplomats are saying for the first time in 70 years they cannot depend on an american president. >> but putin's show of intellectual force in helsinki was not just about trying to prove his dominance over president trump. >> vladimir putin doesn't care about donald trump. vladimir putin doesn't care about the republicans. vladimir putin duoesn't care about the democrats. he hurts america. he hates the united states. he wants to create problems and trouble here. >> he wants to see western democracies in crisis, in chaos mostly say they can't challenge him. >> vladimir putin is one of the most powerful men in the world, and he has forced himself onto that stage no matter how much anybody else might want to keep him off. >> that's a toughness that came early to putin. he was a child of the soviet union, born in linengrad in

1952, the only surviving son of vladimir and maria putin. in a city still reeling from the invasion of world war ii. >> no country has suffered the loss the soviet union suffered between 1941 and 1945. over 20 million dead. the siege of linengrad, putin's home city, was surrounded for 900 days. >> people in linengrad talk about eating human flesh to stay alive. how people are just dying on the streets as they were walking around of starvation. anyone who grew up there would have heard these stories. >> it was a hardscrabble life. the putin lived with two other families in a rat infested communal apartment. >> he was himself kind of a bit of a street hologone, a small guy. and he would make a point of finding the biggest kid he could and literally attacking him to show the others he shouldn't be trifled with. >> but amidst grim post-war linengrad, putin saw a beacon of

light, the kgb, the soviet union's intelligence service. >> he literally worshipped the kgb. it was perceived as something like an elite, the best and the brightest. >> he was enchanted with this sword and shield, a heroic take on an intelligence officer during the war, and it was romantic. it was presented as this james bond kind of lifestyle. >> he talks about learning judo at a young age to try to represent the those people he was seeing in the movies. >> judo that's essentially using your adveritasary's weakness against them. >> in first person in a book of interviews putin gave in 2000 about his life, he stated what amazed me most of all is how one

man's effort could achieve what whole armies could not. one could decide the fate of thousands of people. >> he went as a teenager to the local kgb headquarters and said i want to volunteer, i want to become a spy. and they said no, no, you don't join us, we recruit you. >> putin went onto study law at linengrad university. and then during his last year finally got the call that had been his dream since childhood. coming up -- vladimir putin and millions of his countrymen had no idea of the calamity that awaited the soviet union.

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decade and the kgb played a prominent role both inside and outside the soviet union. >> one of the most vile murderous intelligence services in modern history. a service whose object was to imprison the people of the soviet union, keep them in line and murder those who were not in line. >> they would put people in barrels that were studded with nails and roll them around. they would pour cold-water on them in the freezing moskow winter and create literally ice statues of them. the kgb also had another role, which was to recruit assets and individuals in the west who could serve as spies to try to undermine democratically elected governments. >> putin hoped for a foreign posting, but he spent his first decade as a kgb in leningrad. ultimately as an intelligence officer, recruiting foreigners to be sources and spies.

not much is known about vladimir putin's private life. in 1983 at age 32 he married a flight attendant five years his junior. they initially lived with his parents and within a few years had two daughters. >> it seemed to be a fairly normal russian marriage. i think she didn't work after their children were born. putin is intensely proud about his daughters in particular. >> after ten years in the kgb putin received his long desired foreign posting in 1985. but not to a plum spot like the city in the u.s. or western europe, he was sent to east germany. >> not as some sort of super spy. >> i don't think he felt invigorated that he was really making a meaningful contribution so i think he felt a bit lost. >> back home in the soviet union

a progression of economic crisis were exacerbated by ronald reagan's determination to outspin the russians in defense and bring the ussr to its knees. >> mr. gorbachev, teardown this wall. >> the soviets and the kgb was reeling under a tremendous strain and pressure from the west. >> the soviet president's attempts of the economy were emboldening people from behind the iron curtain to demand more liberty. for several years putin watched from a distance in dresden. >> the great break through in terms of liberty is something he mentions. my wife and i saw this on television but we weren't there when it happened. >> but after the berlin wall collapsed in november 1989, putin soon came face-to-face with changes sweeping the soviet bloc. the following month he was inside dresden's kgb

headquarters when protesters surrounded the building. >> putin takes a pistol from the security guard, and holds it up and makes clear he will shoot anybody who gets inside. but they don't know what to do beyond protecting the headquarters. >> he went inside, talked to the military atashe, and the military responded to him i've contacted moskow and moskow was silent. >> in the bick "first person" putin states that i got the feeling then that the country no longer existed. it had a terminal disease without a cure. >> this was this searing moment for him when suddenly he felt cut off from everything he'd understood. he had been part of the system, he'd helped hold up the system and now the system was in effect abandoning him. >> the kgb was his signature experience that shapes and informs all of his tactics and techniques the unraveling of the soviet union literally is

defining story for vladimir putin. >> by the end of 1990 putin, his wife and two daughters returned to leningrad, his international spy career had fallen far short of his hopes. and the following year he resigned from the kgb. he was 38 years old. just four months later the fate of the soviet union was revealed to the world. on christmas day, 1991 president mi mickhail gorbachev appeared on state tv. >> the flag of the russian republic went up. the one word that sums up the collective feeling of people like putin devoted to the soviet state, humiliation. >> he was then at a loss for figuring out how he is going to then make his mark on the world. >> coming up --

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when the soviet union receded into history at the end of 1991, it took with it the foundations of a society that had existed for seven decades and left chaos in its wake. boris yeltsen was president of the newly formed russian federation, a country that had to create itself from the ground up. >> it was a wild west time. there were no clear laws. there was a new parliament trying to make laws. there was no real system in place. >> crime was rampant. basic necessities unavailable, and unemployment was widespread. but 39-year-old vladimir putin was a lot better off than many other russians. he had a job. he had befriended anitoli, a

university law professor who became the city's first elected mayor and appointed putin to his administration. >> he was just one of the guys who was working with my father, and well, he came to our home and they were close, but putin was always a workaholic. he didn't like to be in the spotlight. >> by 1993 putin had become deputy mayor of st. petersburg. the city like all of russia was struggling. boris yeltsen's government of democratic reformers thought to transform a failed state run economy into a capitalist system. yeltsen initiated the mass privatization program in 1992 to help spur the process. american born investor bill broader moved to moskow in the mid-1990s and ran his capital, the largest hedge fund in russia. >> over a period of about three

years they effectively transferred all state property away from the state to private citizens. the intention was to give it broadly to everybody. but in reality 22 people had enormously valued assets from the government for nothing, often illegally and ended up becoming sputacklerly rich. >> some of of putin's colleagues moved onto jobs in moskow. by august 1996 he also began working for the yeltsen government and quickly began climbing the kremlin ladder. >> he was someone who understood the way people ticked and putin figured out a way to get into the senior ranks of yeltsen's leadership. >> if you're loyal, if you can get things done by yeltsen who's really consumed by alcoholism, you want to give that person more responsibility. >> in 1998 yeltsen appointed putin director of the fsb. a man who had always wanted to

be a spy now commanded the motherland's domestic intelligence service. >> i can imagine that vladimir putin was looking at the fsb as being a very important institution that he understood because he was from that world. >> putin soon had the fsb utilize some old kgb tricks, obtaining compromising material called kompromat on a targeted individual to gain leverage. >> when he became director of the fsb the general of moskow was starting to prosecute a number of crimes around the yeltsen family. and mr. putin at the time helped out mr. yeltsen by taking a clandestinely acquired film of him with prostitutes. >> it ended his career. >> to yeltsen this showed loyalty, and therefore he was

someone who could be trusted to protect yeltsen and the family. >> but putin could not fix all of yetten's problems. >> yetten needed to come up with somebody who could succeed in becoming president and then pardon him as the first act of his presidency so that yetten wouldn't end up facing criminal liability. >> a decisive man, a man who knew how to manipulate power, vladimir putin. >> in august 1999 yeltsen appointed 46-year-old vladimir putin prime minister of the russian federation and endorsed him for the presidency. but yeltsen's plan for his new prime minister to become president and then pardon him soon looked like it would backfire. >> translator: i i remember how the parliament was laughing. they were quite happy actually and very pleased, and that's why they voted for putin. a person who was embraced by yeltsen himself would lose any chance for a political future.

>> but yeltsen hadn't played his final call. on december 31st, three months before the next election boris yeltsen resigned and designated vladimir putin acting president until the election was held a few months later. that afternoon putin addressed the nation on russian state tv. >> translator: i'm drawing your attention to the fact that even for a minute there will be no vacuum of power in the country. not before, and there will never be. i want to give you a warning that any attempt to break any of the russian laws and to violate the russian constitution will be decidedly foiled. >> for many russians the new president was a welcome replacement for yeltsen. >> when he first becomes president they take a poll, who was it about vladimir putin that russians admired most? some about 40% said he was sober. >> he has this face that doesn't show any human emotion.

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was appointed acting president of the russian federation, in march 2000 vladimir putin was elected to the nation's highest office. putin's early actions encouraged many russians and the west. margerita, editor-in-chief of russian state funded television network rt, as well as two government news agencies was a young reporter at the time. >> one of the first laws that was introduced was a law that it was now a criminal offense not to pay salary. that was probably the biggest problem for the average person. >> with respect to capitalism, he has a package of reforms that were championed by western analysts including me. consolidating the tax system, reducing corporate taxes. >> putin's challenges weren't only economic. a long running conflict with che chetsnia brought on a rash of new bombings. >> mr. putin sent almost 100,000

russian troops to chech nia, and this time it was much more brutal. >> for him it's a criminal state, terrorist state. >> terrorists network were on putin's mind when he met with president bush in 2001. he warned the american president and his national security advis advisor rice about the taliban and al-qaeda. according to rice both discounted his alarm. >> apparently a plane has just crashed into the world trade center. >> the very first leader in the world to call george w. bush on 9/1 was vladimir putin. he wanted to pledge to the united states that he would fight this together. that made for a close and effective relationship in those early years. >> putin thought now perhaps bush and his european allies will finally sign-up for my war of civilization against what he

perceived to be islamic terrorism. >> but beginning in 2004 nato began expanding to include countries formerly in the soviet eastern bloc. >> what drove a wedge between the united states and russia was that we were trying to create democratic countries in ukraine and in georgia, countries he hoped to keep under his influence. >> that fit the sort of historical sense of grievance of betrayal by the west. and someone who may have sn instincts to become more democratic by 2004 that had ended. >> he restricted elections if the russian parliament and the state took control of all three independent tv networks. >> he's trying to consolidate power in autocratic ways and to reduce the autonomous activity of the media, of business and of

political parties. >> it was the closing of a society that had this brief period of openness. >> journalists were singled out for attack. >> he made journalists his big enemy. these crimes were never properly investigated. >> putin also targeted the oligarchs, especially those who opposed him. russia's largest oil company owner and was the country's wealthiest man. >> he began funding other parties, and putin saw him as a threat. >> in late 2004 he was arrested for fraud and tax evasion. a move applauded by many russians. >> putin very quickly showed the oligarchs and showed the country that they're not going to be in charge, and we knew we actually

had a new leader. >> putin had him displayed in a cage during his trial to get the attention of other oligarchs. he issued an ultimatum. >> the other oligarchs of russia went to putin and said vladimir, what do we have to do to make sure we don't sit in a cage? and he said 50%. 50% of vladimir putin. and at that point he became the silent business partner of all the oligarchs. >> putin was re-elected in a landslide in march 2004. winning 71% of the vote. six months later in september tragedy struck the russian city of bes lm when militants occupied a school for three days, taking more than 1,100 people hostage including almost 800 children. army troops stormed the school to end the siege. by the time it was over 334 people were dead, half of them

children. it was a turning point for putin and for russia. >> which in fact moved us to strong consolidation of political power in one hand. and putin in fact started to be more of a dictator than elected president. >> in the wake of it putin eliminated elections for governors across russia. he'd now appoint them. and those who crossed him were punished. in november 2005 american born investor who had made billions in the russian stock market was deported from russia after living there for nine years. >> my offense was to expose corruption at the largest company in russia. a multibillion dollar scams that government officials were

benefitting from. >> he had issued reports of his findings to western media. his russian lawyer sergei magnitsky investigated the corruption for three years after broader's deportation and discovered a trail of evidence that broader claims led directly to the kremlin. >> sergei magnitsky had basically uncovered a $230 million crime, but was only one of similar crimes of thefts from the state. we discovered putin was the beneficiary of the scam and setoff a fire storm of enormous consequence. >> sergei magnitsky was arrested in 2008. for the next year he was repeatedly tortured and denied medical care. broader later learned of his fate by a report published by the ng. >> on november 16, 2009 they chained him to a bed and eight

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moskow increasingly competent. >> well into his presidential term in 2007 vladimir putin rode a strong wave of popularity among russians even as he eliminated democratic reforms. >> pensioners live better. he shows he can be effective in keeping people safe, and he stands as a world leader. he gives the russians pride. >> but putin was constitutionally barred from serving a third consecutive

term. for the upcoming 2008 election he endorsed his deputy prime minister and chairman of oil giant for president. >> he is like putin, a lawyer by training. he's a member of the core group for sure. he's loyal to a tee. >> as president he appointed putin his prime minister. >> it's really quite extraordinary. the authoritarian leader gives up the presidency but you know behind the scenes putin is pulling most of the strings. >> later that year the united states also had a new president, barack obama, who announced a reset with russia as an effort to improve relations between the two countries. president obama traveled to moskow in july of 2009 and met with the president and prime minister putin. >> putin expounded on his theory of american power. and he said, look, you guys do

this and you make things worse off. and he was focused on iraq. and he was surprised when president obama agreed with him. and in that moment i think that putin thought, well, maybe obama is different. >> in the wake of the meetings there are agreements forged between the two administration including a reduction in nuclear arms. >> it was quite clear, though, this was only being done by putin's approval. you know, he was giving some rope here, giving some slack. >> while putin pulled strings behind the scenes, he also stepped out on stage at times. at a 2010 celebrity studded children's charity event in st. petersburg. and in the wild, seen in footage that went viral around the world. >> when he's walking along with no shirt on and hunting tigers

and going under water, it looks odd and strange to us in the west. but he understands that those things resonate with people through the russian land mass, which is what 13 time zones across. >> even as thee cultivated his image at home, prime minister putin remained focused on world events. beginning in 2010 a wave of protests against authoritarian governments erupted across the middle east, the arab spring. when he didn't object at president obama's initiative, foreign led intervention in libya, putin was no longer willing to stay behind the scenes. >> the arab spring is the pivotal moment where putin decides, a, we are dangerous, we, united states of america and barack obama, and b, he's naive about how dangerous we are. >> and that drives putin to decide he's not going to let him

stay in the presidency. he was going to come back himself and take over. >> putin ran and was elected for third time in march 2012. he didn't oppose him and once again was appointed his prime minister. >> it's a system that is created for him always to win. the chances that martians will come and save russians from putin are bigger than putin not winning those elections. >> but for months before and after the election people took to the streets of moskow and other russian cities claiming the electoral system was a sham. >> first 50 and then 500 and 5,000 and eventually 200,000 people are on the streets of moskow. and putin is like why are they protesting against me? i'm the one that made them rich, but the next reaction is fear. these are the kind of demonstrations that led to the collapse of the soviet union. and that's when he develops an argument these people are not acting independently, that

they're supported by america. >> putin viewed one american in particular as the mastermind behind the dissemonstrations, president obama's top diplomat. >> we do have serious concerns about the conduct of the elections. >> secretary clinton criticized the state election. and putin came out and said hillary clinton was orchestrating this. >> hillary clinton was such an overt supporter of democracy, human rights, gay and lesbian rights, womens rights, everything putin's against. >> obama's ambassador to moskow michael mcfaul was also on the receiving end of putin's animosity. the fsb followed him and his family throughout moskow. russian state tv broadcast stories about him, inciting revolution against the government. and then mcfall recounts during a meeting at putin's residence he felt physically intimidated. >> and just out of the blue he kind of turned to me and, you know, this guy is causing trouble for us. and he stared at me it seemed

like for 15 minutes. it was probably 15 seconds, but it was a scary moment. he was angry hat me. >> mcfall wasn't the only object of putin's ire. since sergei magnitsky's death bill broward. >> i took this idea to senator john mccain and said can we ban the people who killed sergei magnitsky from coming to the country and can we freeze their assets and they said we can. and that was the genesis of the magnitsky act. >> broader's theory is that the magnitsky act affects putin directly. >> vladimir putin doesn't keep any money in his own name. he keeps money in the name of many russian oligarchs, and this piece of legislation can and will freeze the assets of those oligarchs. i believe putin is the richest man in the world. i believe he's worth $200 billion, and this piece of

legislation puts that money at risk. >> interesting putin's wealth spiked in legal documents when offshore bank accounts were leaked to the press and became known as the panama papers. they pointed to money trail of approximately $100 million that reportedly led to putin but was held in the name of a musician friend, quite a large sum for an orchestra cellist. >> there's big confusion and big scandal and putin took it very personally because his personal life was exposed. >> putin is corrupt. he created a corrupt system in russia, and this system with all his friends is taking the money out of russian economy. >> putin's annual government salary is the equivalent of about $300,000. and while there are no official accounts of his net worth, there are a few indications.

such as a home he allegedly built on russia's black seacoast that was speculated to cost $1 billion. >> the right way to think about it is he's like the czar of russia. he can use anything he wants. so you own a yaht. if he says, you know what, i'd like to spend a week on thisu e yacht, you have no choice but to do that. >> protest and violence broke out on the streets bayou cranians. >> a country like ukraine looking to move to west or move to the nato or eu, he sees this as a personal insult. >> and it was a very emotional reaction when ukraine turned to the european union instead of russia. and they decided to punish ukraine. >> putin sent in russian soldiers. within a month he had annexed crimea. by the following november russia

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rather have a puppet as president of the united states. >> mow puppet, no puppet. you're the puppet. >> it's pretty clear you won't admit that the russians have engaged in cyber attacks. >> the 2016 election season was in high gear, and so were vladimir putin's cyber trolls, hackers and intelligence operatives. >> the american reaction was such a big thing for putin personally because it's the united states, because of the sanctions, because of hillary clinton. i'm really doubtful that any kind of online activity in 2016

could have been done without his approval. >> the russian cyber attack of 2016 really had three elements to it. the first was to penetrate the democratic server parties and the e-mails of the top official of the hillary clinton campaign. the other was to get into state election systems, to their databases. and the third element of this was to inflame or create divisions within the american political culture. they did this with twitter and youtube and probably most of all facebook, creating fake pages, fake personas, fake tweets. >> putin's goal according to u.s. intelligence agencies was to hurt hillary clinton, help donald trump and provoke conflict without leaving any fingerprints. >> the documents stolen by wikileaks. >> clinton blasting russia and vladimir putin. >> state sponsored russian

hackers. >> polls now open. the most contentious and controversial presidential campaign in history. >> the election is over. donald trump will be the next president of the united states. >> vladimir putin's campaign to attack our democracy probably exceeded his own expectations. i don't think he could have imagined that donald trump would emerge the victor. >> might it have influenced the election, yes it might have. we'll never know. >> inside russia there was also surprise and relief as seen on russian tv. >> there was a moment where they applauded to trump when he became the president of the united states. all his supporters in russia drank champagne for the election of president trump. >> before president obama left office his administration levied sanctions and expelled 35 russians in retaliation for the

cyber attack on the united states. but once president trump was sworn in any further actions would be up to his administration. >> most people believed that hillary clinton was going to win the election and believed that whatever we were able to do in response to their interference was going to be continued by a clinton administration. but then the election results dictated otherwise. >> a little more than a year later special counsel robert mueller issued his first indictments of 13 russian nationals for election hacking. >> putin's intelligence officer, he can always say this isn't us. he certainly understands having grown up through the kgb and created this system it is part and parcel of the same thing. he is controlling it. >> the american election wasn't the only target of putin's attacks. in march 2018 sergei scripal, a former russian double agent and his daughter, were poisoned in

salsbury, england with a chemical agent only produced in russia. they survived. two men traveling on russian passports were identified. putin denied anything having to do with the attack. >> vladimir putin showed he will not abide by any rules, by any norms and that he will do whatever it takes to actually hunt down anybody who he believes was an asset of the west. >> two weeks after scripal's poisoning in march 2018 vladimir putin was re-elected to a fourth term. >> breaking news tonight, major new charges in the mueller investigation. a dozen russian agents charged with hacking the democrats. >> on july 13th special counsel robert mueller's investigation into collusion between the trump campaign and putin's government

issued another indictment linking the kremlin to the election attack. three days later putin met with president trump in helsinki. >> for president putin, why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement russians did not intervene in the 2016 election? >> putin denied the allegations. instead he offered to allow mueller to observe russian law enforcement interviewing the alleged hackers. but he wanted something unprecedented in return. access to u.s. government officials he claimed were criminals. >> officers of law enforcement and intelligence service of the united states who we believe have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of russia. >> on putin's list, former ambassador to russia michael mcfaul. >> i was shocked by the audacity of what putin was doing. he was saying we want to arrest the former ambassador of the

united states of america to the russian federation. and he was daring the trump administration to bat that back, and the president didn't bat it back. >> vladimir putin never would have made the proposal to barack obama or bill clinton or george w. bush. he would know that they would have turned him down flat. >> i think that vladimir putin felt he was in command. i don't know what was going through his mind other than donald trump is not going to be a real problem for me. >> while his attack on the american election mumonopolized the summit press conference, vladimir putin seemed unphased. he strolled out as the alpha male and so far unrebuked by president trump. >> vladimir putin knew in order to ensure the success of the russian nation state he'd have to have someone in the white house who would defer to moskow. that is exactly what vladimir putin has gotten in donald

trump. >> he got what he wanted, and he was never held fully to account. >> vladimir putin emerged from the wreckage of the soviet union determined to put russia back in the center of the international universe, and he's done that. a convicted thief continues his stealing ways inside the jail. >> he snuck behind the deputy's desk and stole his chew. lord knows what happened to it after that. >> a former law enforcement officer turned meth addict is now serving time with and growing closer to her dealer.