well we've just heard bill browder speaking before the senate judiciary committee in washington d.c. now his testimony it really kind of focused on the foreign registration act of the foreign agents registration act law in the united states which monitors the activities of people directly working for foreign governments he argued that he felt that this law was not broad enough was not sweeping enough it is important to note that bill browder is one of the main people who pushed for the magnitsky act was the primary imposition of sanctions on russia now in his testimony he certainly used some rather inflammatory rhetoric and talked about russia and some rather harsh terms let's take a listen to what bill browder said before the committee it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals the russians are liars if threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping the russians will do anything they can get away with it even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill to take people's properties away admiring your courage and t

congress as hedge fund investor bill browder testifies as part of the investigation into. the russian last year. there thursday evening seven o'clock here in moscow. and this is an international law to update you on this hour to first of all that response we got. to go now the russian president vladimir putin's given his reaction to the latest round of possible u.s. sanctions on russia saying they are illegal and cynical. so in the news of coolness these sanctions are completely illegal they go against international law and the rules of the world trade organization we're being very patient and very reserved but at some point we will have to respond you can't always put up with such an attitude toward your country. or that is all after u.s. lawmakers passed a new round of anti russia sanctions in response to moscow's alleged meddling in the us presidential election bill still needs president trumps approval and if it's implemented it will target russia's energy sector as well as mining and metal industries president putin says ties between moscow and washington are falling

congress hedge fund investor bill browder testifies as part of the investigation into team meeting with a russian lawyer last year. flock back to a holy site in. security measures are lifted by its really authorities. between palestinian worshippers and the i.d.f. the temple mount. around the clock across the world this is our team international from the team and myself welcome to the program our top story germany's economy minister say there is a possibility you will use country measures against them. the proposed restrictions are aimed at punishing companies with ties to russia's energy sector. raised fears of the struction to a major russia e.u. joint project the nord stream gas pipeline. it is bad that the u.s. has left the common line it had was europe for sanctions against russia there is a possibility of counter sanctions against the guinness we've heard from the german minister of economy and energy there. but she's not alone in those that have been critical of this latest round of sanctions that's been proposed by the united states we've also heard from the austrian chancellor

here now is bill browder with his side of the story. good evening to you and thank you for joining us tonigh tonight. you worked extensively in russia, had huge business and investments there at one point and all of that went south when you feel corruption was uncovered by you and then by your friend magnitsky, who was subsequently murdered in a jail cell, correct? >> that's right. i uncovered corruption, they got angry with me for uncovering corruption, expelled me from the country, my offices were rated, they seize my documents, they use the documents to steal $231 million of taxes we paid. my lawyer magnitsky exposed it. he was taken into custody, tortured for 358 days and killed seven years ago at the age of 37 and i've been on a mission to get justice for him ever since. >> martha: how does all of that lead to the meeting that was recently uncovered in this email chain between natalia veselnitskaya and donald trump junior? >> it became clearer that i wasn't going to get any justice in russia because it's such a corrupt country, so

congress well bill browder was a hedge fund investor doing lots of big business in russia in the early two thousand this point he's a wanted man charged with tax fraud in russia furthermore he was key in lobbying for the passing of sanctions against russia magnitsky act put forward in two thousand and thirteen so here's where russian lawyer and italia vessel need sky comes in she met with trump's team last year to discuss these anti russian sanctions the magnitsky act and there are many allegations about that meeting she came up throughout the hearing and was pretty much a central figure in the testimony of those two russian lawyers name to tell us when it's going to be so. then it will this guy. natalia natalia lynette's guy and i just go and tell you i tried it over lindsey graham's pronunciation they're now in his testimony bill browder just scribed her as an agent of the russian government saying that she worked with the security services had all kinds of connections almost as if she were working directly for president vladimir putin himself now what did she say in response to mr b

bill browder, you will testify before this committee come thursday.ou very much pretty good to have you back on the show tonight. >> great to be with you. thank you. >> martha: shocked tonight as jordan releases terrifying videos that show american shoulders shut down in allied territory, killed in cold blood. cap next we get reactions from the two special forces operators about what went wrong here. also tonight, great news from commerce and steve soliz. he is headed home. also this evening, a muslim leader and a california mosque calling for violence against jews. also, signs that north korea is at it again. this time more frightening than ever. we will be right back. ose feeli. because i am cured with harvoni. ose feeli. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni, your doctor

also with us, bill browder, the ceo of herm taj capital management and the author of "red notice." he actually knows the russian lawyer who met with donald trump jr. in this meeting. ron clain, i want to go first of all to you with this latest development in the sequence of stories we've had this weekend. what does this add to the story as it is now to know that there's an e-mail that donald trump jr. received saying that this was about the russian government trying to help his father win the election? >> lawrence, you know, the lou thudding noise your viewers hear behind me is the sound after six months of a giant shoe finally dropping in this investigation. six months ago, the vice president told us that no one on their campaign had met with the russians. then one by one, we've learned about these meetings. but all along until now, they insisted the meetings were about policy or getting to know you. now we finally know there were meetings between senior trump officials, donald trump jr. and, of course, jared kushner, paul manafort, are russian liaisons, to talk about how the russ

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congress says hedge fund investor bill browder testifies as part of the investigation into a meeting of russian lawyers last year. plus fresh clashes in jerusalem after a palestinian flag is installed over one of the buildings on the temple mount and is then removed by the israeli police. just after eight pm here in moscow on thursday july twenty seventh this is r.t. international i'm you know neal good to have your company our top story russian president vladimir putin has given his reaction to the latest round of possible u.s. sanctions on russia. so the news of these sanctions are completely illegal they go against international law and the rules of the world trade organization with being very patient and very reserved but at some point we will have to respond you can't always put up with such an attitude toward your country. that statement coming after a u.s. lawmakers passed a new round of sanctions in response to moscow's alleged meddling in the us presidential election the bill still needs president trumps approval and if implemented will target russia's energy sector as well

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bill browder is his name. story connects the dots showing how all of this leads back to vladimir putin. >> like russia and other countries the way that the world works is that the president of that country allows certain people to get rich, you often get a share of the wealth of those people. and then he can rely on those people to do the state's bidding in situations in which where it may not be appropriate or they may not want to show the government's face. >> bill: some of his story is stunning to listen to. we'll monitor this and bring you developments when we get them from the hill hearing now. in the meantime another big headline. it is crunch time for the senate on healthcare. it has come down to this. republicans placing their hopes on the so-called skinny repeal of obamacare we just mentioned that would strip a lot of taxes from the law. mike emanuel live on the hill. where are we heading into what appears to be a critical 48 hours in the senate, mike? >> good morning. looks like we could be heading f

bill browder testified that the russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya, the one who is at the 2016 trump tower meeting was part of this broad effort to get the magnitsky act repealed and these are sanctions that were leveled after this russian whistleblower was murdered because he had exposed the corruption of vladimir putin's government. >> two-way russian agent or official, a conversation about adoptions is a conversation about what? >> nobody was hung by adoption, they were talking about the repeal of sanctions so russian tortures and murders could continue. >> and his testimony, bill browder also made the point that a key player who is part of a broad effort to repeal the sanctions was also a key player in the commissioning of the unverified anti-trump dossier and in this exchange with republican senator lindsey graham, browder explains how the russians operate. >> is it common for russia to play both sides against the middle? >> yes. but a report and is in the business of trying to create chaos everywhere. >> for this dump any fusion gps, this is run by this former journalist with "

bill browder, american businessman, the force behind the magnitsky act on human rights. what else came out of this dramatic testimony? >> reporter: it was a rather dramatic moment on capitol hill earlier today. browder saying that it was a "major ask" for natalia vifl nets veselnitskaya, a major ask for the russians to seek the repeal, that magnitsky action of sanctions enacted by the united states in 2012. he said that he believes that they probably wanted something in return. now, he did not have direct evidence of anything that they wanted, but said he was very familiar with russian efforts, russian intelligence and this is exactly the kind of thing that they tend 20 to do. he said with 100% certainty the russian intelligence nuew about this meeting at trump tower in advance of it happening. now, after this testimony i had a chance to talk with senator lindsey graham who sits on that committee and questioned bill browder. i said, do you think the trump team was naive in taking this meeting? he said, perhaps they were naive, and he also said that, this needs to be inves

but not to american hedge fund manager bill browder. >> i've only met her once. she checks me as a very high strung and hostile person but that may be because of her role. >> he says he's long been a target of a smear campaign by natalia veselnitskaya. period he was the biggest foreign investor in the 90s. corrupt officials stroll money he had paid in of moscow. his lawyer says -- browder pushed congress to write the magnitsky act. veselnitskaya is the top lobbyist on the case. >> apparently an unlimited budget from her russian paymasters to do whatever she deems necessary in terms of attacking the magnitsky act. >> vladimir putin apparently so mad about the sanctions he froze u.s. adoptions of russian children in retaliation. the kremlin denies veselnitskaya was an agent of the russian government but browder believes she was sent to offer a good protocol to the trump team. apparently there was no dirt on hillary clinton. >> it went on to a story about russian adoption and how we could help and that's where we shut it down. >> for her part, veselnitskaya maintain

bill browder?ang with me a moment here, i just want to see if i can get this last answer here. sir, if you still have me on the connection here, do you believe that the president must assign this sanctions bill that was just placed in congress in the past 24 hours? okay, our apologies to our audience, that is bill browder, he had stunning testimony from yesterday, with which he believes is the evils of vladimir putin's government, on how he believes that he is responsible directly for taking his friend's life. it is a stunning admission, we will post it online so that you may check it out there. apologies on that. sheena, what do you have? >> shannon: we will talk to the father of one of the green berets, who believes such as may have been an assassination or something else, he says that jordan was involved in a cover-up. whoooo. finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. because tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites - so you save up to 30% on the hotel you want. lock it in. tripadvisor.

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as hearing was hedge fund head bill browder the military has been following the story and she joins us for more this seems more than interesting testimony oh at the focus today of the meeting was supposed to be oversight of the foreign agents registration act and on the alleged russian election meddling and while bill browder gave his testimony before the senate he really offered no concrete evidence to support any of those claims. turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals to threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping in the face of evil i don't think there's any other way to characterize mir putin the russians will do anything they can get away with or even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill just to take people's properties away the russians are liars browder shot down his operations in russia just a few years ago and is now wanted by the kremlin for tax evasion but since then has been lobbying for say against russia and worked on the magnitsky act and this is where he brings up the russian attorney nat

congress as hedge fund investor bill browder testifies as part of the investigation into. the russian lawyer last year.

now, we know they were going after bill browder, the performer hedge fund guy who now lives in london, who basically ginned up the magnitskying a because of the death of his accountant magnitsky in russia. he lobbied very strongly the u.s. congress and to go after human rights abusers in russia who he believed had killed magnitsky and were a part of the putin regime and he persuaded congress to do so. now, so, i think we can surmise that what natalya was talking about were hedge fund contributions associated with bill browder's financial business. but rinat says he didn't see the folder. he didn't work on it. he doesn't know the contents of the folder beyond what natalya told him. can i take a step back here? to some extent this is all sort of fascinating little details about who was at the meeting. but there is one key witness here who the versions you would think would be focused on. that's rob goldstone. he's the author of the e-mails. he's the one who said the russian government was wanted to impart this information to help the trump campaign. he's the one who said they were helpi

he was sued by preet bharara for allegedly laundering money that he allegedly stole from bill browderaundered in new york real estate. that natalia to new york over and over again. she was granted a visa exception to defend her client. she was also involved in lobbying against the magnitsky act. chairpublican senate chuck grassley filed a complaint in saying that she should be march, investigated, along with , who was at the meeting at trump tower last summer, for lobbying for the russian government but not registering as foreign agents. charlie: how does her description of the meeting -- what does it say and how does it differ from what donald trump jr. says? julia: in some ways, both of their explanations align. if you just look at their descriptions of the meeting, it looks like it was kind of a bait-and-switch. she got in the door by saying, i have damaging information about your political opponent. let's talk. she gave him information he did not find -- she gives him information he does not find possible or satisfactory. she tries to saint -- change the subject to the magnitsky a

what will bill browder say about his knowledge of this lawyer? that's a key question lawmakers plan to probe as they learn more about this trump tower meeting. and of course this committee too still wants to talk to paul manafort and donald trump jr. right now that's going to be done privately. the question is will that happen publicly some time in the coming weeks, guys. >> manu raju on the hill. thank you very much for that. another big day ahead for health care. minutes from now senators kick off what could be a grueling day as they fight on the future of health care in this country, a marathon series of votes. ahead, this is the gop plan still unclear at best. >> all right, blind sided by the president's transgender ban, now the president is asking the white house how do you expect us to implement this? plus, chaos at the ohio state fair when a spinning ride breaks apart. one person has died. >> it just flew off. the whole thing flew off. her leg hit her leg -- just flew her whole leg -- and then -- took her out and he wasn't breathing. i lik

prime minister who said that according to you, quote, it is too bad that magnitsky is dead and bill browders still alive and free. do you really think that the russian government wants you dead? >> i know the russian government wants me dead, and i can say there is a number of other people connected to this case who are dead. boris nemsoff, a russian opposition politician who had been lobbying for the magnitsky act was shot in front of the kremlin in 2015. his protoe shea was poisoned within an inch of his life. he went into coma and organ failure. the mother was thrown off a fourth floor apartment building. he survived, thank god. and of course i have been receiving all these different types of threats from russia. this is a regime that kills and maims when you're standing in their way and standing in the way of them stealing money. >> all right. bill, i appreciate your time. sobering conversation and obviously you will be testifying tomorrow and that important testimony we'll be talking to you then. >> after the president tweets we worship god in america, a leading conservative firing bac

my next guest american businessman bill browder says the conversation about russian adoptions is reallybout sanctions. now, years ago he made a lot of money as a hedge fund manager and the top foreign investor in russia. take a look, sergei magnitsky uncovered a massive scheme and he was arrested and died in a moscow prison. and he pushed congress to pass the magnitsky act which led to russian banning -- russia banning russian adoptions by those in the u.s. that russian lawyer, natal veselnitskaya who met with donald trump jr. and jared kushner and paul manafort she wants it lifted. you say the magnitsky act as a topic of conversation isn't so innocent in fact as people may seem to believe. you believe it's putin's number one priority to get the u.s. to lift those sanctions under the act. explain. >> so sergei magnitsky as you mentioned was my lawyer. he uncovered a massive government corruption scheme of $230 million stolen from the russian government. vladimir putin was one of the beneficiaries of that theft. when magnitsky exposed the crime, he was subsequently arrested, put in pretr

next >>> earlier today, bill browder testified and telling investors of the dangerous of lobbiests whoe not registered under the foreign agents act. >> joining us now is bill browder, it is good to have you here >> great to be here. >> what did they want to know and what did you tell them about the lawyer >> what they wanted to understand was what was going on in terms of this major putin operation of the mitskiyak repealed they wanted to understand that what campaign wasall about and what was going on in washington with her lobbying campaign and what was going on at strtrump te with the meeting with donald trump, jr. >> why does he care about it so much >> well, the main reason he cares about it putin is one of the richest man in the world, he's worth about $200 billion. that money is potentially at risk of being frozen and seized under the act because of his role so he's got a personal sfwr interest in getting rid of that legislation. >> $200 billion is a lot of money. we are making a big deal of the fact that jeff basol is the richest man in the world worth of $90 billion >> double

s reporter: a hedge manager bill browder called her a lermidable adversary. said she wouldn't have been in the u.s. lobbying without the kremlin's blessing. >> they don't give out business cards from the kremlin saying you're a kremlin lawyer, go to washington and do this. >> reporter: after the meeting last june, veselnitskaya went to washington, organized a onreening of a anti-magnitsky film at the museum, and was in the first row of a congressional hearing on u.s. policy toward russia. last year she also took on former u.s. attorney preet ccarara, who had accused denis katsyv of that kremlin-connected family, of money laundering. ede case was settled after s arara was fired by president trump. in court documents, veselnitskaya has argued and won more than 300 cases and her clients include large state- cased and private corporations. >> she's a non-partisan advocate for a bunch of crooks back in the russian government. >> reporter: the justice department settled that money laundering case against veselnitskaya's client four months after mr. trump came into

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interesting turn the russian lawyer accused of being a russian agent says she's been targeted by bill browder and will testify in front of the united states senate not only vested in its gaia gave an exclusive interview to our tea we pick up the story tonight with alexy our shops. that a.b.c. news cut herself spoke exclusively to r.t. not only said that her main and all new mission there was to lobby against immigrants but also that now she fears for her life she would. have to think about my safety first and foremost about the safety of my family my four children it's been revealed that mr browder has been gathering information about me to try to find out where there are married or not whether i have children or not found photos of my house and sent them to copartner he's a famous man in the house of representatives so they shared all these details with people from the state department i don't know why he's doing this i can only make assumptions here and see today situation has been heating up for ten days or so as a very well orchestrated story concocted by one particular manipulator and th

congress says hedge fund investor bill browder testified as part of the investigation into the meeting with a russian lawyer last year. plus fresh clashes in jerusalem after a palestinian flag is installed over one of the buildings on the.

i'm bill browder. i'm founder and ceo of hermitage capital management. we discovered massive corruption in the companies we invested in. to fight that corruption we start today research how they went about doeng the tale steals and share that had with international media. this naming and shaming campaign had some positive effect on the share price of the companies and it was also made russia a better place for some period of time but exposing billions of dollars upset the people who were benefitting. those people had very close connections with if put putin regime. in november of 2005 i was expelled from the country. i was declared a threat to national security. in june of 2007 my moscow office was raided by 25 officers from the moscow interior industry. 25 raided the office of firestone duncan. in those raids they sought to get the investments for our holding companies. i hired the smart erts man i knew to investigate who did what and how we could stop them. he went out, investigated and came back with an astounding conclusion. he came back with that th

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the big proponent of those sanctions was bill browder, a former american citizen, british who bankrolledar is if you are running an intelligence operation to try and su btly intelligence operation to try and subtly push an american election, thatis subtly push an american election, that is the opposite of what you do. you do not very publicly, and through these very obviously traceable intermediaries, put out feelers and deliver nothing of real value or substance. you do the opposite. the very quietly deliver things of tremendous value in a plausibly deniable way. this seems like the opposite of a russian intelligence operation. it may have been a bumbling rush—hour kremlin lobbying operation. what you say is that maybe the lawyer overrate this? or maybe somebody further down the it is quite possible. the way the kremlin system works made recalls the soviet system. over fulfilling the soviet system. over fulfilling the plan. putin set a general direction for a russian policy. then you have a competition. remember the famous competition among the hackers? this competition among elements o

she got involved in lobbying tsky act.he magni charlie: you quoted bill browder, who is talking to usrow, as saying that she was vindictive, ruthless, and unrelenting. julia: a good russian lawyer. the thing that makes a good russian lawyer is not necessarily what makes a good american lawyer. it is about presenting your legal arguments and discovery. this is about who you know and who you bring a briefcase full you are to, who connected to, who your clients are connected to, and that is how the judge determines. charlie: what led up to this meeting? julia: she was defending a man who is a businessman from russia and is very well connected and his father is a very well-connected businessman in russia and a former regional minister. bharara for by preet stealing money from bill bro wder, which brought her to new york over and over again. she was defending her client here and she was also involved in lobbying against the magni tsky act and chuck grassley filed a complaint, saying that she should be investigated, along with the other person at the meeting in trump tower last summer, for

something about this before we found out the russian lawyer said that her business was dealing with bill browders the act. but the response that you just heard where he said, it is not clear what they were doing in that meeting with donald trump jr. and paul manafort and jared kushner and whoever else was in that meeting. what's your take on all of this? >> this does have all the hall marks of a russian intelligence operation. excuse me, my voice is going a little bit. so what happened in that meeting is a little less important in the e-mail, as far as the russians were concerned, a trap was set, bait was put out and donald trump jr. took bait. the information the russians would need, whether elements of the trump campaign team were willing to compromise themselves. they've received their e-mail back. they would take people as access agents, to go in co-opted to do that meeting, to see if the trump people are will to talk further. so i think it is more of a test. >> so you've been in this business a long time. let's say it is a test. they go in to see if the trumps would be receptive to this inf

magnitsky worked for financier bill browder who filed a complaint with the justice department against him accusing him working on behalf of the russian government. >> all of his actions to date show that he's absolutely clearly working in the interests of the putin regime. and the fsb in order to appeal the magnitsky act and create a situation where russian torturers and murderers can now freely travel again. >> reporter: his partner to remove the sanctions is natalia veselnitskaya. she was also named in browder's complaint. the day of the meeting with "the washington post" and ap, vess veselnitskaya added him to attend. >> they were working together in new york, they had this big project together. it would have been odd if he hadn't been at the donald trump jr. meeting because this was a project they were working lockstep. as far as i could tell, he was the die in the cords of power so it completely makes sense that he would have been at that meeting. >> reporter: dana rohrbacker -- >> you're trying to make it look like only the two of them, come on. >> reporter: he tells cnn in may

bill browder testified before u.s.ers last week and he spoke not just about the russian leader but about some of the participants in that controversial meeting donald trump jr. had last year with a russian lawyer. >> an enemy of vladimir putin makes a bold appearance on capitol hill and tells senators of putin's clep topsy. >> i believe he's worth $200 billion. that money is held all over the world in banks in america and all over. the purpose of putin's regime has been to commit terrible crimes in order to get that money. >> bill broud ser a well think financier. he's claiming putin demanded a cut from russia's richest businessmen who feared being targeted for persecution from the regime. >> and he said very straightforward, 50%. not 50% for the russian government, 50% for vladimir putin. >> cnn cannot independently verify browder's assertions and he provided no evidence in his public testimony. he admits he's got a personal ax to grind. he hired a russian lawyer who exposed a $230 million fraud scheme benefitted peop

>> i think bill browder is right. >> you do. >> i think putin was almost certainly briefed on the meetingt happened. i think there's a lot of evidence that suggests that this was a dangle, that this was an attempt to make inroads into trump's inner circle. >> you're saying, as someone who used to do the russia desk, that this would be at the highest levels of the kremlin. >> yeah. based on my knowledge of how these things are run. when i worket the state department, at the pentagon, i mean, this is how they operate. and they were wildly successful. they got the campaign chairman. they got the president's, at that point, the president's son-in-law and his son to all participate in this one meeting. i mean, it was a huge coup. >> so briefly, what is your response to trump officials saying it had nothing to do with the russian government, it was just an adoption meeting, more or less. >> i think some of the e-mail chains that were released suggest there were links to the russian government and this is how the russian government operates. they wouldn't send officials from the embassy necessar

for american born investor bill browder, it all comes down to three words. >> greed, money and murdere people are so obsessed with money that they're ready to kill anyone who gets in the way. >> sounds like a mafia. >> it's a mafia that's running a sovereign state with nuclear weapons. >> browder didn't start out as a campaigner for clean government. quite the opposite. the hedge fund manager first went to russia more than two decades ago in the free-for-all days after the fall of the soviet union >> here in moscow, the fight for now is an economic fight as this country struggles to rebuild after the fall of communism. >> the nation's entire economy was being privatized on the cheap. >> the stuff was being effectively given away for free. all you had to do was show up. >> when vladimir putin took off, he promised to stop the gold rush. >> he came in at a time of total chaos. the oligarchies had taken over ssia. 150 million people eating dirt. putin said we're going to get rid of these 22 guys and we're going to clean up russia. >> and you believed it? >> i clapped along with everybody

for american born investor bill browder, it all comes down to three words. >> greed, money and murderobsessed with money that they're ready to kill anyone who gets in the way. >> sounds like a mafia. >> it's a mafia that's running a sovereign state with nuclear weapons. >> browder didn't start out as a campaigner for clean government. quite the opposite. the hedge fund manager first went to russia more than two decades ago in the free forall days after the fall of the soviet union >> here in moscow, the fight for now is an economic fight as this country struggles to rebuild after the fall of communism. >> the nation's entire economy was being privatized on the cheap. >> the stuff was being effect e effectiveeffectiv effectively given away for free. all you had to do was show up. >> when vladimir putin took off, he promised to stop the gold rush. >> he came in at a time of total chaos. the allah garices had taken over russia. 150 million people eating dirt. putin said we're going to get rid of these 22 guys and we're going to clean up russia. >> and you believed it? >> i clapped along

this is with bill browder, who was the person that higher nitsky to -- this is what he had to say about- >> greed, money and murder, these people are so obsessed with money, that they're ready to kill anyone who gets in the way. >> sounds like a mafia, it's a mafia, but it's running a sovereign state with nuclear weapons. >> we should not forget that nitsky died in a russian prison in 2009. >> i think vladimir putin is a very smart guy, even though i don't like him, i think he understands how to rebuild the soviet empire, that's why he's coming hospitals with innocent children in syria and invading ukraine and trying to build his empire, but you do have these russian mafias what are running the country, you have vladimir putin himself who's suspected of stealing billions of dollars from the russian state and converting it to his own use. i think we have to understand that russia only reacts to brick walls, when president trump stands up and says you are are not going beyond this point, vladimir putin will not challenge that, because he knows he controls a country whose economy is 1/20th

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bill browder says the russian lawyer hired fusion gps. >> they took on a number of lobbyists, public relations people and others and one of the firms they took on as part of this campaign was a firm in washington washington, d.c. former british ambassador emphasizes to fox news he could not vouch for the material. woods said "i understand the contents were known to others." the senator arranged for the papers to be brought to him. it was up to the center to decide what action he took. senator mccain's office did not immediately respond. mccain said he reviewed the dossier. he passed the file to james comey. grassley's office told fox news the fbi has not responded to their request for more information. >> bret: the justice department taking down a massive health care fraud scam that totaled more than a billion dollars in full spitting. hundreds of health care providers have been suspended, and from participating in federal programs or even arrested. kevin corke has details. >> we are sending a message to criminals we will find you. we will bring you to justice, and you will pay a ver

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