testimony before the us senate panel and to the russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election bill browder the chief executive of hermitage capital management said hey believe putin was worth $200000000000.00 brother was once the biggest investor in russia and his lawyer magnitsky died in a russian jail whilst investigating corruption and i'm very pleased to say he's with us this week on counting the cost from london bill nice to have you with us thanks for your time. great to be here 200000000000 without giving away the site secrets how did you get to that. well i mean that calculation and a very broad brush way which was to say i think the way that coding operates is that he allows the oligarchs of russia to get rich as long as the oligarchs share 50 percent of their wealth with him and and so that's a simple calculation of at the time the oligarchy top oligarchs wealth was $400000000000.00 and i assume that he had half of it since them and that was a while ago i think as well as probably increased because he takes a share of everything that comes in and and there have been a lot of stuf

watered down by putin's very clever ways of forming his way into and diluting foreign policy the bill browderith his views on what's happening in russia at the moment thank you for joining us we do appreciate it. thank you. now flows before perves main starts wall street bets if you know what any of those main then well done you a younger and far more in touch than i am what you might have heard though is a lot of fuss about stocks in something cold game stop now with those sorts of phrases which are now part of the stock market lexicon we have to say a new generation has taken many of the old hands by surprise and seen the market go to new highs they make bets using new trading apps which of democratized trading the show but their biggest fads actually laid waste to the multi-billion dollar hedge funds who've been short selling the stocks we will demystify all of this in a moment with our guests after this report from kristen so they me in new york. you have to have some type of faith if you're in the stock market i don't think all of it is just skill i think some of it is also maybe it's hi

off the back of many years and many other cases — i could mention khodorkovsky, i could mention bill browder the business and investment climate in your country today still looks deeply negative to outsiders? stephen, so i was actually one of the first people to condemn this case of michael calvey. i spoke up about eight hours after his arrest, the minute i found out about this. i know him as a highly ethical individual. his fund is one of the best investment funds in russia. since the development, we have continued to do investments with his fund. and i met with him as soon as he was released from his sentence and i believe him to be a highly ethical person, and i've been very vocal about this. forgive me, he hasn't... unless i'm misunderstanding, he hasn't been released from his sentence. he's still facing these very serious charges. he was just released from detention, but he still faces these charges. that sends a very negative message. well, i've been vocal about my support to my colleague and i continue to do so, and we need to have courts work through their system. and i am not the ru

2011 >> i was listening to an interview with one of the very prominent vladimir putin critics, bill browderhe said yesterday in his view the biggest fear for president putin is not a one particular person or figure head in the form of navalny, but it is the risk of widespread protests and further demonstrations do you ascribe to that view as well >> i don't think so. i think that the protests is widespread we've seen that in about 100 cities over the last weekend and the weekend before, but the protests is most of the time small scale. the numbers are going down in some of the cities the main concern for the authorities are two big cities, moscow and st. petersburg. here a week ago we saw about 40,000 protesters in moscow. this time police was prepared. they sealed off the downtown the number have been down significantly also because the police has ratcheted up violence against the protesters yes, it's a challenge, but i think that so far it appears government is in full control of the situation. >> in terms of the response we've had from the west so far, the u.s. secretary of state has com

. >> bill browder, thank you so much. >>> we could learn more details about who was behind the murderlist jamal cas khashoggi. >>> also the house oversight committee heard testimony today on ways to stabilize the budget of the u.s. postal service. it's not just declining first-class mail hurting the usps's bottom line but a requirement passed by congress that they fund retiree health benefits decades in advance. the committee is considering legislation that could help. today postmaster general louis dejoy apologized again for slow mail during the peak holiday season, calling it unacceptable. >> we must acknowledge that during this peak season, we fell far short of meeting our service targets. too many americans were left waiting for weeks for important deliveries of mail and packages. this is unacceptable and i apologize to our customers who felt the impact of our delays. >> asked how long he was planning to stay at usps, he told the oversight committee a long time. get used to me. i'm brooke baldwin here in new york. thank you for joining me. see you back here tomorrow. "the lead" wi