to bring down a sub, a denial of service and people are unable to vote or carry up with that. with that business, of course, they've already said they expect that this justice, they expected that you created a fed civil attempt attempted to create a defensive interaction territory along bill. good. know the new grade bill going to cost and those regions we knew those, those attacks were coming months to go with the ukrainians, were prepared for them. and on the electronic funds, they were preparing to attack russian service election websites, accredited websites, government websites, obviously they, they had but bad bud 5 bowls and security badges. so it has been a total failure on the positive cost. so act as we have a record ton of since the full of the soviet union, not even during the 1st election of the russian federation, back in the ninety's, did so many people. 10087000087,

the hot medium boxes, the base of the list, which is an incredible amount and for vladimir, put into with 87 percent of that vote. a study we also heard or talk about how the west says that russia's election is neither free nor fair. that's a term that we hear often when the west is not happy with the outcome of the election. but then she went on to detail, all the efforts that went into making sure that everyone from all parts of rushing even beyond had access to pulling and are able to vote in this election. i know you voted as well. what are your thoughts as, as a russian, when you hear things like that and, and, and what do you, what, what, what are the thoughts of other russians, you know, who stood in line for hours of the 87000000 people who did come out to vote in this election, how it or react to something like that, but you see this is how russia has changed because in years past 5 years ago, i would perhaps have taken offense. would have been you would've heard a little bit to be called to the 2nd grade,

the be to be told as if by use of periods that you're doing that will rule. now it just e, e, it's funny, it's funny. couldn't care less. i mean, the united states where you have president by then using administrative resources to crush his opponent and to deny him the chance of appearing the ballad. teaching us about democracy, you have the gym and the germans who are trying to label the biggest opposition policy is a terrorist organization. so you do lots about selections and in frauds where they have maligned the national fraud every way possible using staples as they tried to tell off house of recollections. mm hm. it's a joke. yeah, it's a joke. the mosques are off the mazda roof, there is nothing. there is nothing that they can teach russians and buses to

finally find the off the 30 years of wondering what was who they are, what that for the 5 g, a dispute that they are separate. so the civilization with the values and their own path forward. but i listen before i let you go and obviously you've got a lot of work to do. and i appreciate you joining us here at our special election studio. so you may, we've been in this business a long time. okay. we've been all around the world we, we've, we've covered, you have politics from the front line time and time and time again. let's just throw that to the side. we're nights, we've known each other. we worked together, you look at the selection from a personal point of view, from a personal point of view. what do you think? how does it make it feel your cost you a vote? what are your expectations? are? it is a cutting point. it is a 10 input in the history. not only for rush, not only for rush of the selection, is pause of the change that will change the well. the balance of power is shifting. economies are shifting. a cultural, cultural as well as

a traditional values are once again persevering. taking the behind over the chase, the tunnel, chase of money for profit, for over the american dream basic. the russian so has reawaken by show has finally understood its place and the people have booted no matter how difficult this path going forward is going to be for russia and others. this is a pos, the busha is going to continue down. the west. biggest hope, biggest, something that they spend billions on that is to destabilize russia has, traditionally, what russia has been, be by, by abroad. well, uprisings amongst the population division amongst the population, the russians themselves. it isn't far anatomies that have defeated bush west has put billions on the spreading chaos and spreading disagreement between mushrooms

failed. yeah, it is absolutely failed. and busha utilize it is going on on child the course on shots, but hopefully a prosperous and happy one. not only for russia, but for the rest of the world as well. the next now i was more that you are a senior across one. it will be sending it back to the front lines, very swiftly packing bags. get ready, my friend g on thank you. so we have an international reaction to both the election process and the results coming in. let's cross live now to our correspondent marina plus rate. but uh for more on this marina get us up to speed and what people are saying absolutely where we are getting, congratulations, poor and then from all across the world of the statements from coming in from countries like bolivia, nicaragua, to just on breakfast on me on more also we had the cuba oven as well, which won't get to the 2nd. and just recently, china has spoken out saying, congratulations,

of course. and also that russia and china are each other's largest partners and also that there are comprehensive strategic incorporated partners in the new era, which is exactly, we're glad to work with and was saying in his victory speech that russia is on a new path. on a more independence, so from past which was the goal and the mission, all vladimir putin. but like i said, again, we're getting congratulations from different parts of the world. we're waiting for breaks countries to join in a little bit later as well as the african continent. but so far we've also heard from other one as well. i'm president as well. echo the sentiments of pretty much most of the leaders that were heard from so far that this is that the results show that this is a convince of victory and also that the russian to people have spoken. and they clearly crystal clearly support vladimir fruits and t. c. c. and we've moved in 87 percent of the vote pollutant has completely won the war against the collective west. it demonstrates the values of the russian people who

are leading the way for president vladimir putin is victory. it also mocks along road of vindication and recognition for new russia, a great russia for a multi polar weld and for a world of balance. so our elder brother vladimir putin, his triumphed. these are good arguments for the world. and for the year 2024. congratulations from one to 10 and russia. i'll try and sing on old. back. as for the west, we are here and nothing. there is mainly silence just to read just some of the headlights fresh of the price right now in the u. k. for example, all these people that are sending the congratulations of the leaders all these countries. apparently they're just sports because this is what the headline states despots of rushed to congratulate fruits and after his sham election. victor, of course we've heard that this is a slight sham election before the election. they even started with the president congratulating vladimir preaching before the vote. and have been sorted, as i said with a landslide victory, but of course, even they probably could not expect that their results would be so high. and that's support for vladimir putin would be so hot. but again,

they claim that this is all ashamed that the elections are fake. and, and the other headlines that i'd like to read is the western leaders dismiss of hooton's, illegal poll victory. there's also a lot being said in western media about this awkward silence. were in fact this really awkward for the was not it was not so much for russia because there's lot of everything said last night. is victoria sweet? is that well, what do we expect the west of these signs off in applaud? no, of course, not because they are fighting us militarily. so russia is not expecting to hear congratulations from the west, but in fact, headlines likely to show exactly what is going on. and to be quite frank, diplomatically speaking, it's awkward for the west because when it comes to diplomacy, they should congratulate the presence of the country regardless of their feelings, if they want to continue their relationship forward. and they will have to, because a lot of my fruits and will be in power for the next 60 years, so they'll have to sort of speaking eventually. so perhaps congratulations would be a nice start, but that's just now my humble opinion moving forward. i'd like to also point out

something that maria's a harvest set when she called out the double standards of the west because we heard from the german 4 ministry again that the election. of course, i know they are not free, but the main issue that they're sizing is the fact that a lot of my put them is in power once again for the 5th term like this is the 1st time this happens in the world. we've seen this time and time again, and like rory pointed out the previous hour, benjamin netanyahu in germany themselves, they elected angela merkel 4 times. so it seems to be a problem when this happens in countries that don't do what they want them to do when they don't play by the rules when they don't play along. so no, we're not expecting to hear anything from the was just more headlines like this about a lot of me of who's in being a desperate. the fact that this election is all ashamed, but we are expecting to hear more congratulations from the rest of the world. was little as we know is very, very large as well. you know, when you think about the 12000000 cyber attacks, i'm or you know, coming from the pen followed by from the central electric commission. she just said

that during that selection process, 12000000 cyber attacks have targeted russia over 400000 other types of digital online attacks as well. and yet, for the biggest country in the world, and how many tens of millions voting across 11 time zones, it's being very smooth. say, technologies, we're going to cause a river. thank you. yeah. or anything. all right, i just read or joined now by international attorney. climb preston, who is also one of the international observers here during the presidential election kind. great to have you on with us. don't wanna talk to you about what marina was saying there about all the western headlines that are saying this is a sham election. it's rig you're here, actually witnessing the election for yourself. what did you, what did you see? what do you have to say about that? well, this is my 7th election here and um, and what i saw was what i see every time which is a very uniform standardized election process. it is obviously secure, it's open and it meets all international norms. and if you apply even american

standards, um it, it meets an exceeds low, so there's no surprises. in fact, that's again, a good comment that yeah, no carry on the line cario. and i mean, it's in a way, it's kind of, i mean, i love doing it and go to the different polling stations. yeah. in fact, it's kind of boring in a way because you're gonna find the same system. the same layout. yeah. everywhere . so it's very predictable. you don't see anyone trying to stuff available. she didn't say any one shrug. sorry, but i'm trying to find something negative here. you can see anything. well that was detroit. no, no, i didn't. the next the next. yeah. no said no, no, you never seen anything like that. yeah, it's a very stable secure system, i guess. secure is the one that thousands of cameras to i mean either cameras, right. so in 2011 the select and i did after that there were some, there were complaints by people in the west. hillary clinton's? no, i was surprised. you know, said, you know, it was a sam election was here. yeah. and i didn't say anything. and so the very next

selection, victor tour of who used to be the head of the election commission here, he implemented the camera system. yeah. and so was almost like, it was a, you know, a reaction, but it stayed. and so we saw the cameras that are in standardized places in each of the polling stations. and meantime, some of the covers why they've switched off whole blocks in the united states. so the last presidential election with these notifications of a pilot stuff in guy going, i mean there are allegations that some of the cameras were switched off or even blocked. i mean, i don't want to get into it, but honestly, lots of power. my goodness. and, you know, you know, there was all sorts of strange reasons. i was very, you know, i'll be honest with you. i've never seen an american election like the one that happened last time. but yeah, i just, i just think frankly, i mean, my personal opinion is the democrats stolen, they did anything they could to stop trouble from getting back into the white house and now klein. they're going to do it all over a good. they're going to try and stop him again. i sort of jump in, right? but, but you know, i thought people saying and not go friends in america. some of them in this,

in the southern belt, alabama, mississippi, louisiana. these guys a pack in the heat like these guys have like yeah, awesome. holes of weapons of the houses. and they said to me, they said roy, they take out trump with going north. i mean, this is people really on edge about this. what do you think line? i mean i have the same of that. i'm seeing the same things in our country. um, unfortunately, the biggest problem in our country i, i worked on the uh, election team as an attorney for president trump last time. and i was in detroit, i saw a motorized, what happened and what, what was, what did you see that, like i saw violations of the, the so there's a remote voting, you know, the absentee voting yeah. and so after the polls close them, all these boxes came in with, with a balance of them and what it happened. and it wasn't just the, the, the democrats that costs at election. it was the republicans in the states that

were battle ground states. because they all passed similar legislation with republican majorities in each of those states that permitted this absentee ballot a system which was controlled and monitored by the local election committee. so in detroit, wayne county, michigan, when the actual implementation of the law was to occur, what was done on the local level by democrat. and so the, the republicans in the states created a situation where the democrats would do the dirty work. but they made it possible, and because in my view, the, you know, they called the deep state or whatever it is established with the people in the united states and within the republican party who did not want trump in to begin with. right. then i played nice with him. yeah. and then when i saw their opportunity, they made it happen. mitch mcconnell. yeah. and that group of people that target lindsey graham, they turned on him had sancho, it's very important, you know,

i mean, it was and so that it was made possible by the republicans, but everybody's pulling up. the demo is not interesting. yeah. you know, you'll put and took a job at, at the us, us presidential race and the state of us democracy in, in his speech last night saying that democracy in russia looks much better in comparison. you know. and going back to the 2020 us presidential election where we didn't know for days who the president was going to be the county. i'm an american i, i wrote by absentee ballot because that's the only way i can vote. but i mean, a lot of times the, this presidential race is called before. i know my vote hasn't even been counted, but that's not the case here. i mean, people, every single vote is counted here. i mean, what do you have to say about that in the state of democracy and russia by comparison to america, which is supposed to be, you know, the bastion of democracy and everything. well, we have a very long history in the united states and i and listen, i'm pro american, i want my system better. and that's why i talk about it. not because i'm going to down my culture, but i want to, i want it to be better and so it could be

a lot better, but it's not the best it can be on purpose. when you go back and look at elections in our country, going back to when the next and last to kennedy back in the i think it was less than 60 or their boss. the da, 60 um, you know that election was purportedly repeatedly stolen then. and there is a long history of and in my own city. so we just translated book called the secrets of the hope will box, which is a story and a recounting of voter fraud in nashville, tennessee. and i mean, it's a long history of, in our countries and it can be better, but it's not gonna be better with the system that you have different systems and every county, like in our state of tennessee, we have different systems and every county different technology here you have 22

ways of going. it's either paper ballot streamlined isn't a streamlined or you might have a, an electronic system called k e b. and the cab system it reads in the ballot, but then the ballots there and it's visible. mm hm. and it's saved and so it's not a way that you can push a button and i'll send your boat go some place. yeah. yeah. you don't know where there's no way to no way. the size of the system is broken. you know, and some people are actually saying the system is broken, that full people are able to corrupted and use it to, to their own certain benefits. i mean the, the, the democratic process, i'm not going to get too much into it, but i, i hear a lot of people online complaining about a lot of people feeling like there's no true fat representation. there are also those that say the democrats and republicans, you know, 2 sides of the same call in but, but let me ask you this fine. i mean, it's, it's a big look now we've got, we've got put in for another 6 years. okay. a lot of people in the rush, or we're going to be very, very happy about that. perhaps not so many politicians in the western hemisphere. we're going to be very happy about it. but what does it mean for the russia us

relationship? if, when we get to november, it is donald trump, the returns to the white house, geo politically speaking. where do you see the relationship between the us and russia moving to often november? if it is trump, i think it will improve because uh, president trump wanted to have better relations and rational reasonable relations with russia before. but he was prevented by the rustle folks coming from day one. it was a hoax. they started this, you know, campaign to prevent a decent relationship. yeah. and it's done so and promoted by certain members of congress who have relatives who originated in certain country. and that's where it originate. yeah. and it's, it's powerful and you know, you can come is going to win. i don't think he's, he didn't, he said, but i'm not going to say it's going to get someone in the. yeah. yeah. i think he will win the election. but they will stop enough the,

the stay and i hate to use that to him because it goes down, it sound conspiratorial. but the fact is there is a deep state. the fact is, there is and, and as you say, it has many, many people are concerned that they will do anything to stop them from getting back into the white house. and as we said earlier, to, to us senior correspondent and to all the guys as well, i'm not the biggest trump find, but what i do like is the fact that the entire political at western media landscape hate trump. and if they hate them, then i like it. you know what i mean class? yeah, well, i'm a little people the same way. uh and he is, he is gained a lot of even if you didn't like trump before. then, you know, you were offended by his main tweets and you know, everything like that, that the suburban women in america were upset by all the caravans. yeah, the karens didn't like the main points of the, you know, give me a dollar 86 dollars a gown. yeah. yeah. the main points any day. yeah. um, but he will. um, i think he'll, he's getting so much respect from people. i'm by the way he's withstood give you

a tax resilience. yeah, it doesn't matter if you like his policies or not. this is a man who has withstood for different indictments. yes. he's getting charged and accused of things everywhere around the country by every possible branch of the democratic dougherty and their machine. and it keeps going. it looks like the slides was counterproductive though, isn't it? because it's galvanized from supporting base as you say, and gain more supporters. but if nothing else you have to look at maybe if you wouldn't both on the side, that is a strong man. yeah. i know we weren't in the white house. we weren't a strong man and with a strong man like, uh, president trump. the relationship with russia will be number one. they'll respect him. and i think the, the outcome will be nothing but positive for both countries, right? because he does not have male intent to rush, so he's very practical guy. yeah. right, great client, thank you so much for joining you very much. all right, well, vice chairman of the shanghai center for rem pack in international studies. nelson

long believes the west is losing its dominance as the world moves to a more multi polar system. best of all, i have to congratulate a friends in russia, people of russia like choice. and so it actually shows that the of the boxes of the people of russia, that's about who they both for and what kind of a leader they are expecting. so putting has proven himself to be a strong and a good lead. uh, uh, for the country of russia, which is, i think it is quite important because the ability to english is so critical and due to the country's economic and political development. and particularly under the circumstances that you know, was the ongoing restructuring of like new political realities. about the world and we're talking about moving into the new

multi paula we'll, we'll grow or probably centric world, whatever you call it. the days of one casual and dominating the wealth is off the past. the emergence of organizations like the brakes and the shanghai cooperation organizations are indicators enough to suggest that the rest of the world is not happy. we're talking about the possible decline all the decline of the u. s . m. 5, but it doesn't mean that the, the united states of america is gone. no, it is do the most powerful country on earth. and so multi point of world is not just that i am leaving the world. you are not know, this is not in a multi paula world. this will become a computation fighting for supremacy. so i think what we are expecting

is how the, you know, the western world and some of the emerging powers of the world can eventually come together to reach a consensus of how we can move forward. and only then only by then we can talk about a real ma say, paula was well, that's the joint logic attribute atara read. now who's joining us here in our special studio for the continuation of all special coverage, tara, what an interesting past few days we have witnessed so far here in the russian federation. look like food is set to be the amount of a helm for another 6 years. what would you, would you expect more of the same hair in russia, or would it be, you know, don't rock the boat as it. what do you think things are going to be the status quote here in the russian federation? well, i think there is a momentum that president putin in the leadership that he's not only established with russia, but globally. the multi polar world is now is now, here we are, right? and so i think the west is having to come to terms with this galvanized they,

they were there watching the selection. i mean, there's no question. he had an 83 percent approval rate. president clinton did, i mean, no american president has had that. in fact, right now, biden's approval rate is 34 percent. is it $34.00? $34.00 to that toilet. yeah, absolutely does. more so and as far as the voter turnout you had 73 percent of voters turn out and russia, america can't even match that i think the highest was 66 percent and the 2020 election which, which was actually really high for the american election. exactly. the point, yeah. what do you, what are your thoughts on the stay of democracy in russia by compared to the us? because if us, if you ask, you know, a western politician or western media, they're not, they're going to say there's democracy in russia. but then you hear, you have 77 percent of russians coming out to vote in the selection, putting, being re, elected with 87 percent of the vote, you know, taking part in the democratic process. i know this is your 1st election in russell,

but you also worked in politics in america, so you know how it goes. i mean, what, what are your thoughts on the comparison between the 2 processes is really interesting because the election here is a national holiday. so work and people can take the day off, they can go and they can vote in the us. we don't have that. so you have of people coming early in the morning of lines. you have maylen ballots that are allowed in america. they're not here. it's much more organized, it's much more transparent, and that's what i'm noticing when i was observing, you know, from a far, now i'm under political asylum in russia. so i wasn't able to vote in russia in the selection. i wish i could of and i'm really was really pleased to see how it went off very seamlessly and with integrity. and i think the rest of people should be proud. i mean, they've been faced with 16000 sanctions by the west. and yet the nation, their economic growth was, you know, over 3.7 percent on surpassing europe and the us. yep. and so i

think the, the west sanction themselves. so we need to come to the question of democracy. president putin said very clearly that the west doesn't have a democracy and he included the united states, and i can tell you from personal experience, we don't have a democracy. it's been hijacked. it's been hijacked by a few weeks and the military industrial complex. there is no question. yeah, i think is a very, very good company that we, we could close our hours about that. do you bring us down to the ground level if, if you would tar. um you've been living in russia for how long now? a few months. uh, be here almost a year in may, almost a year in may. what to you when you speak to your friends and family, a former colleagues back in the united states? what do you tell them about russia? well, what do you think about, what does it, what does they think of you seeing here? because i know the, i've had people who i'm best meet for defecting to russia. you know what i mean? there are people that you call me a defector, a traitor. there's family that will not speak to me. yeah. but most of my close

family, including my daughter, is very proud of me. my daughter is not cfo big. she's very, very sympathetic to this. what i would say is that i feel like a mist buster. i've been bust, you know, miss busting about um, but you know, the propaganda, we get in the west right at and, um, so the people that are open to hearing it and i'm sending photos. i'm sending videos and i'm constantly trying to say, look, this is a very beautiful, vibrant city in moscow. i've been to lot of a stock. i've been to be all the way to front of us to. i was the usually. yeah, yeah, it's a gorgeous the old or is the yes. wow. the other side of the pacific and it's, it's um, you know, it's a vibrant country with 11 time zones. and what's really amazing is the way the leadership has been able to keep it unified and going in this positive direction. and with this key secret is, is they're focusing in word and building their infrastructure and helping they're

working and middle class. so, you know, it's, it's really remarkable how people in the west, the almost don't want to hear the truth. they have an idea in their head based on the help again to that they grew up with, have never been to russia the. and they want to believe that that's true and, and, and it's, and it's not. and it is this really interesting phenomenon. you know, i wanna talk to you about how the west is, is obviously not exactly standing up to tier on vladimir putin and send him well, which is even germany branding. there's a pseudo election, which is remarkable because again, we have all this information that proves that it was in fact a very free and very fair election. but again, people don't want to hear that. why do you make up the fact that these countries who call themselves democracies don't even want to recognize the democratic process in rush it? because as the result, they don't want to see, right? it's, it's just, you know, they're trying to further their narrative. they're trying to justify the military industrial complex, the, the amount of money they're spending on weapons. i think last week, 60000000000 was approved or they're trying to shove it through in the us, um, towards ukraine, towards weapons and in

a useless proxy war against russia. that's obviously failed and changed the economy is particularly in europe. and what can, you know? i think it's really odd that the us is talking about democracy when the f b i d o j has been completely weaponized against its own citizens and the, and you have the u. k, where the prime minister wasn't even elected. hm. yeah. right, right. the come on. yeah. you know, he's not even elected them. they're lecturing us and one of the richest men in the country, a little thinking about being his wife. exactly. yeah. yeah. i think it is interesting . i mean it's, it's such a state of affairs in the world today. they're going to be so many people in russia who are happy with a turn out of this election. they're going to be plenty of politicians in the west who are going to be unhappy with this. but look at as you, you know, you mentioned that what narratives a few moments ago. and i'm so glad you did tara, because this is the world of narratives. now, you know, for example, the anti russia narrative, the, the anti proved and narrow it, save, you know, these old narratives at a propagated by the west and politicians and media landscape. and i think

a lot of people these days are waking up to the b. s. and a lot of it just stinks and we know, but not as stupid as the politicians like to think, particularly as an ex pat all 3 of us, for example, when you leave your home country and you look back, hm. you can see it with much clearer eyes. you really, really can't, don't you think? i think so and, and, you know, i love america and i don't, i'm not a trader. and the reason why i'm speaking out so much about what's happening here is because i want america to be better. it doesn't have just to come to this unless wars and other infrastructure falling apart and rushes, nothing enemy. and that's the main thing. yeah. and i, i really like the quote that president putin did a couple of days ago is the quote, a 2024. he, he was talking about the elite in the west. he said the vampire is ball is over. he said they've been stuffing the bellies with human flesh. i thought that was a wild state. but by the way, i like to remember the gods when you.