simon: boris yeltsin is a hugely underrated character. he was flawed, great but flawed. he was a drunk. he opened up the war in chechnya and terrible things were done there. he opened up russia. he tried to check abuses. he opened up history. he brought in democracy. brian: you say he brought in putin. what did he think putin would do? simon: this is the succession thing. it is impossible for an autocrat to retire without being murdered. it is impossible for a president to retire without agreement that he and his entire entourage and family will not be prosecuted for either war crimes of the or the vast corruption. that means, in effect, it is virtually impossible for any president to retire. retiredwhy when yeltsin , he made a deal with his successor and that is why putin can never really retire. he was asked if he would ever give up, retire. and he said he would never retire. i will never be like gorbachev and nicholas the second and leave the country to chaos, scum, hooligans. they were weak. they were betrayers. i will never advocate. brian: viewers can find another

with boris yeltsin presiding.hey were buried in the family vault, but two of the bodies were missing. not anastasia, she did not survive. the grand duchess maria and her sister their bodies were never found. 10 years later, 2007, very recently, they found the remains of those bodies. just bits of skeleton. they were tested by western specialists and found to be the missing romanovs, but the orthodox church, backed by the president of the russian federation, because in russia the orthodox church is a branch of the autocracy, challenged these findings. last year, we're up-to-date now, last year, president putin and his security agencies and the church suddenly decided they would test everything again. they have exhumed nicholas ii, temporarily, tested his body, exhumed the children, and they tested these two last bodies. at the time we are speaking, nothing has been announced jet. it think this has something to do with putin's view of history. putin's preparation for the centennial coming up next year and after. som

well understood and unfortunately the abuses began not with putin but the hand-picked successor boris yeltsin and the crimes began with yeltsin and the massacre of the television tower in 1993 and the rushing -- and the russian parliament and carpet bombing in 1995 that 25,000 people were killed almost all of them civilians now appears the 1996 election in which yeltsin was reelected was falsified and most importantly of all the circumstances under which putin became the new russian president he became the president in the aftermath bombing of four apartment buildings in russia that terrified the entire country galvanize support for a new and even more bloody war in chechnya create the conditions for putin who had 2% to parading to become the national savior and the country's new president. when he took over he brought with him his on dryish and they proceeded to eliminate what was left of the freedoms that had been tolerated under yeltsin. those preconditions for his coming to power was the criminalization under yeltsin because only under a provocation like those carpet bombs with such a reg

boris yeltsin certainly, but what about on the labor side, who's going to take over there. remarkably, the markets in the u.s. and here in europe are steady, whether that's going to last or not, we don't know, trish, but the political fallout we are following now. stay tuned as they say, there's a long way to go, so buckle up. back to you. trish: thank you, ashley. much more on the markets coming up here. we're looking at near highs of the session, we've got marc faber who says the only thing to buy right now is gold. that's it. he's typical bear himself. dick bove on whether there is a risk of 2008 scenario of contagion in the markets. we'll talk about the financial markets and the risk to it. >>> first, to our other top story. terrorists striking this time in turkey, 41 people dead. 239 injured in an attack by three suicide bombers at istanbul's airport. authorities right now trying piece together how this attack happened. they're going through surveillance footage including footage that shows one of the bombs going off. i want to warn you it is hard to watch, but here it

prime minister of prussia at a -- prime minister of russia at a time when there was concern that boris yeltsin was unstable. it was thought it was important, and so the commission became the place where a lot of business with the soviet union was done. vice president cheney started off his term with some unique advantages. unlike the other vice presidents during his. the he had served in major positions in the executive branch under president ford, secretary of defense under the first president bush, in the house of representatives during the reagan presidency. in addition, yet had a close relationship with president bush that developed both because he knew and had worked with the second president bush's father but also that he chaired the vice presidential selection and participated and share the transition. after 9/11, vice president cheney became even more influential. played a leading role in the bush administration with respect to the war on terror, economic matters. his power declined during the second term for a variety of reasons, but throughout his two terms he was somebody who was am

interesting because as everyone knows, the bodies were found in the 1990's and buried in 1998, boris yeltsinresiding and it was buried in the family vault, but two of the bodies were missing. not anastasia, who did not survive, but the grand duchess maria and her sister their bodies were never found. 10 years later, 2007, very recently, they found the remains of those bodies. just bits of skeleton. they were tested by western specialists and found to be the missing romanovs, but the orthodox church, backed by the president of the russian federation, because in russia the orthodox church is a branch of the autocracy, challenged these findings and so for 10 years nothing were done with these body parties. last year -- we're right up to date, last year, president putin, his security agencies and the church suddenly decided they would test everything again. so they exhumaned nicholas ii temporarily, tested their body. they exhumaned the body and they tested these two last bodies and at the time of the speaking, nothing has been announced yet. but i think this is something to do with putin's view

simon: boris yeltsin is a hugely underrated character. he was flawed, great but flawed. he was a drunk. he opened up the war in chechnya and terrible things were done there. he opened up russia. he tried to check abuses. he opened up history. he brought in democracy. brian: you say he brought in putin. what did he think putin would do? simon: this is the succession thing. it is impossible for an autocrat to retire without being murdered. it is impossible for a president to retire without agreement that he and his entire entourage and family will not be prosecuted for either war crimes or the vast corruption. that means, in effect, it is virtually impossible for any president to retire. that is why when yeltsin retired, he made a deal with his successor and that is why putin can never really retire. he was asked if he would ever give up, retire. and he said he would never retire. i will never be like gorbachev and nicholas the second and leave the country to chaos, scum, hooligans. they were weak. they were betrayers. i will never advocate. brian: viewers can find another

one religion or one color or gender or ethnicity coming here -- stuart: we are rolling video of boris yeltsin, the leader of the leave campaign leaving his house this morning, being greeted by a very hostile crowd shouting racist scum at him. they branded him racist scum. >> there are a lot of people who want to return to common sense. that is what a lot of this is about. donald trump may not say it so eloquently all the time but there are people at home saying wait a second, before we let people into this country we should at least figure out who they are and why they are coming, it is not about banning an entire religion but having some common sense. when people hurl the epithet racist at you, you keep your opinion to your self but internally it has not changed. plenty of people at home saying wait a second, the world is insane. we need to take a moment, take a breath. >> by the way they are not racists. stuart: i have to say goodbye to you but one last comment from you about donald trump. i watched closely when he met the press in scotland. i thought he handled the press extremely well and

and on the history of the genetic code, report on the leadership of boris yeltsin and vladimir putinand we visit nashville to talk with local authors and taken the city's literary sites. those are just a few of the events coming up on booktv. for complete television schedule go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. >> good afternoon. we shall get the proceedings underway. when barack obama was elected president of the united states he was riding a swell of hope however illusory the hope might have been across the country that our first black or half black president would usher in an era of post-racial harmony. 7 years later i think we all know how well that turned out. obama has healed the racial divide as successfully as his promised healing of the oceans. racial unrest has gone from attendance simmer to a raging boil. the left would like to pin the blame for this on what they claim is the right's racist refusal to accept a black man as president. in fact what has exacerbated race relations in the united states is the inhere

putin is the hand-picked successor of boris yeltsin.y began with yeltsin and the crimes began with yeltsin. they began with the massacre at the television tower in 1993 and the shelling of the russian parliament. the carpet bombing in 1995 in which it is estimated 20,000 people were killed almost all of them civilians. now it appears that the 1996 elections in which yeltsin was quote/unquote reelected were falsfid. and most important of all the circumstances under which putin became the new russian president, he became the president in the aftermaths of the bombing of four apartment buildings in russia that terrified the entire country galvenized support for a new and even more bloody war in chechnya and created the conditions for putin who had a 2% approval rating in the country to become the national savior and the country's new president. when he took over as president, he brought with him his kgb, fsb entourage and they proceeded to eliminate what was left of the freedoms that had been tolerated under yeltsin. the precondition for p

boris nemtsov. he was deputy prime minister under yeltsin and today is one of putin's most vocal critics. us in, but the chef is a brit, so maybe he has less reason to worry. >> first course, gentlemen? >> ah. >> at yornik restaurant they are serving their own versions of dino-era russian classics. a modern riff on borscht. typically a chunky hearty beet and cabbage broth with chunks of meat, here it's a puree with a more elegant, shall we say, deconstructed presentation. critics of the government, critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. >> yes. unfortunately, existing power represent let i say russia of 19th century. not of 21st. >> critics of putin, beware. oligarch mikhail khodorkovsky accused putin of corruption and wound up spending ten years in prison and labor camps. alexander litvinenko accused state security services of organizing a coup to put putin in power. he was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. and viktor yushchenko the former ukrainian president poisoned, disfigured, and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin. i'm not saying official russian