mr. browder. do have a few more minutes? mr. browder: i do, but i do not want to monopolize. >> i would like to open it up to the audience for some questions, since we will be losing you and a couple of minutes. it anyone have a question for mr. browder? do we have a microphone? high -- hi. when we were talking about the -- you law, i'm aware canioned the u.s. courts speculate on whether another country upholds the rule of law. to say thatre russia did not require significant analysis, how do you think the u.s. judiciary a system can better equipped itself to go against russia? mr. browder: one can never reject evidence from other think ift right, but i a policy decision is made at a government level that evidence coming from russia should be assumed to be tainted unless proven otherwise, unless -- in other words, the burden of proof should be shifted from taking at face value russian judgment to assuming they are not legitimate unless the case can be proven otherwise. in the u.k., if somebody has a claim, let's say they bring a

mr. browder have earned over $1.5 billion in russia. they never paid any taxes, neither in russia nor in the united states, and yet the money escaped the country. >> bill browder joins me after the break. you're watching msnbc. edge of the box, willingham shoots... goooooooaaaaaaaallllllll! that...was...magic. willingham tucks it in and puts the championship to bed. sweet dreams, nighty night. as long as soccer players celebrate with a slide, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. pressure, what pressure? the players on the... pressure, what pressure? be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower y

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we'll speak to mr browder on the programme. homeland security says russia is a threat to all 50 american states and the us should expect them to interfere in this year's election. also on the programme. the uk's new brexit secretary meets his opposite number in brussels, on the day the commission warns businesses in europe to prepare for "no deal". and...

mr. browder. that if anything happens to mr. browder, if he should fall for a bridge or be shot as he gets out of a car, the world is going to blame vladimir putin. is that something you're seeking as well? are you disappointed you haven't gotten something so forceful as that from the president of the united states or have you given up on that? >> i haven't given up on anything. i've been involved in this struggle for a very long time. fortunately, i live in britain, i'm a british citizen and the british government has come to my defense in a very robust way. in case of the british government, putin has approached the british government 12 times, and within seconds, they have rejected those approaches without any question. and i feel legally protected. but the "wall street journal" is right, which is that it's not just extradition that i'm worried about. vladimir putin is a cold-blooded killer. he has a history of killing his political opponents. i am a political opponent. and we have seen a lot of terrible things happen in a lot

mr. browder made today. i think what we heard a lot of were defensive strategies with the exception of sanctions for protecting, fortifying u.s. institutions and maybe bet proer tekting some of the victims and targets of russian interference and abuse of our democratic institutions here in the u.s. and in europe, as well. i'm curious whether in thinking about shifting some of the ways that our judiciary thinks about russian interference or russian attempts to leverage our judiciary system and democratic institutions and time to rethink the aspects of foreign sovereign immunity to all nations in the world and protects them from any sort of parody or symmetry in the ability of victims or targets to use the same court systems to then respond or go after the regimes such as putin's kremlin and may be targeting them. >> probably for you. it's very -- >> right. but, well -- a little bit of to use the legal system, you mean for u.s. government to use russian legal system the same way at russian federation is used o

mr. browder, business associates of mr. browder have earned $1.5 billion, never paid taxes in russia or the u.s. and yet the money escape the country, transferred to the u.s. first of all, your reaction to his accusations? >> vladimir putin hates my guts. he hates my guts because i was the one responsible for getting the pregnancy ask act in place which goes after the club regrets and crooks like vladimir putin. he's been going after me for a number of years. both of many criminal cases, accused me of serial killing, being a cia, mi6 agent, trying to bring russia down. they've accused me of donating $400 million to hillary clinton. they changed to 400,000 the next day. putin is throwing all these accusations out like candy because he hates me and he hates me because i found his achilles heel, which is his money in the west, and we can seize it through this magnitsky act. >> shannon: how do you react to the comments by sarah sanders from the white house that there was a conversation, , and welcoe limited by the u.s. an intere

mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. browder have earned over $1.5 billion in russia. they never paid any taxes, neither in russia nor in the united states, and yet the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent huge amount of money, they sent huge amount of money, $400 million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. well, that's the personal case. it might have been legal, the contribution itself, but the way the money was earned was illegal. so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. so we have a -- an interest of questioning them. we can all -- that -- that could be a first step, and we can also extend it. options abound, and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. options abound, and they all can reporter: and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? president putin's translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship b

mr. browder. in 2009, one of his lawyers mysteriously died in prison, which led mr. owder to successfully lobby congress for the magnitsky act, allowing the u.s. to sanction russian human rights violators. putin's government convicted him of tax fraud and sentenced him to nine years in prison. he's still considered under investigation. the second individual is our well-known former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, also the author of a new book on putin's government that is very critical. he now is considered a person of interest in the browder investigation. wolf, we have sound from both men reacting to this idea that they could be actually called back to russia to answer to investigators in putin's government. let's give that a listen. >> hand me over to putin is basically to hand me over to my death, and i've been fighting for human rights. i've been fighting for justice for my murdered lawyer, and to hand over a human rights campaigner to a murderer to his death would be the most insane thing that this president could do. >> this is yet another tactic to intim

mr. browder in this particular case business associates of mr. browder have earned over $1.5 billion in russia they never paid any taxes, neither in russia or the united states, and yet the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they send huge amount of money, 400 million as contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. well, that's their personal case it might have been legal the contribution itself. but the way the money was earned was illegal. so we have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions, so we have an interest of questioning them. that could be a first step we can also extend it. options abound and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. >> 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 i think there can be three questions from the russian you have the floor thank you so much and good evening to everyone.

mr. browder. and if anything happens to mr. owder, if he should fall from a bridge or be shot as he gets out of the car, the world is going to blame vladimir putin. council met with bill browder the a satellite -- via satellite. [video clip] >> is donald trump were sitting here among the audience, what would you tell him? >> i wrote a letter to donald trump last week which i with bill browder the apublished in time o vladimir putin was. vladimir putin does not negotiate, he is a total bluffer. bald-facedp is a liar -- excuse me, vladimir putin is a bald-faced liar. vladimir putin is a killer and anything that ever gets agreed -- henot going to end up is not going to follow through. , if hesult of this actually knew who he was dealing with and was sincere about making america great again, he should be isolating vladimir .utin, not engaging him this idea of handing the over as some kind of quid pro quo, he should know that if i ever got handed over to the russians, he would be handing me over to my death. you mr.at note, thank bro

mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. browder have earned over $1.5 billion in russia. they never paid any taxes. neither in russia or the united states, and yet, the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent 400 million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. well, that's their personal case. it might have been legal. the contribution it, but the way the money was earned was illegal. so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, accompanied and guided these transactions. so we have an interest of questioning them. but that could be the first step, and we can also extend it. options abound. and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. >> reporter: 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. >> i think they were permitted three questions from the russian press. >> thank you so much. good evening to e

mr. browder in this particular case, business associates of mr. browder have earned over $1on mil in russia. they never paid any taxes, neitr in russiaor the united states, and yet the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent huge amount of money, $400 million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. that's their personal case. it might havelegal, the contribution itself, but the way the money was earned was illegal so we have reason to believe that some intelligence officers these nied and guide transactions so we have an interest of questioning them. that could be a first step and we canlso extend it. options abound, and -- and they all can be found in an al appropriate l framework. >> did you want mr. trump to win theelection, and did you direct any of your officials to do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did, because he talks about bringing the u.s.-russia relationshk to normal.he i think can be three questions from the russian pool. you have the floor. >> thank you so much. good evening to everyo

mr. browder in this particular case. >> what he did is an incredible offer. he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. i think that's an incredible offer. >> no. it's actually not an incredible offer because bill browder, an american citizen, by the way, is the man who lobbied for the magnitsky act, imposing sanctions on officials responsible for the death of his former lawyer, sergei magnitsky, who blew the whistle on massive fraud in the russian government. i got the chance to talk to mr. browder earlier about why he has gotten under putin's skin. >> it's kind of a -- the achilles heel of vladimir putin that we found through this magnitsky act, and that's why he's so obsessed by me and by the magnitsky act, and that's why he keeps on bringing it up with trump and people close to him. putin's got a real problem here because i put his money at risk. and that's why he's so angry. >> putin may be angry, but he's also in complete control, which was on full display in the way he owned th

mr. browder has been living under several years now. >> and the u.s.ernment officials can usually expect the defense of their own government in protecting them against. michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. i'm sorry about the circumstances and you're one of the americans caught up in this. thanks for talking to us about it. >> sure. thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. [ coughs ] ♪ ♪ [ screams ] ♪ [ laughs ] ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa. your one item would be the name your price tool? it helps people save on car insurance. why wouldn't it save me? why? what would you bring? a boat. huh. whoooo. tripadvisor makes finding your perfect hotel... relaxing. just enter your destination and dates. tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the hotel you want for the lowest price. dates. deals. done! tripadvisor. you're trying to lower your very hwith a healthy diet... and exercise. and maybe even, unproven fish oil supplements. not all omega-3s are clinically proven or the same. discover prescription omega-3 vascepa. the one

for instance we can bring up the mr mr browder in this particular case. business associates of mr browder have earned over one half million dollars in russia they never paid any taxes neither in russia not in the united states and yet the money escaped the country they were transferred to the united states. they sent a huge amount of money four hundred million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton well that's their personal case it might have been legal for the contribution itself but the way that money was earned was illegal so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers a company and and guided these transactions so we have a an interest of questioning them. but we can know that it could be a first step and we can also extend that options abound. and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. and if you direct any of your officials to help him do that. when we can yes i did yes i did because he talked about bringing the right us relationship back to normal those same year that moved on there were three

mr. browder, you had been arrested in spain, and you think that was on the instigation of the russian government. how much of a threat to you feel you are under on a daily basis from the kmlin? bill: i'm genuinely vladimir .tin's number one ene they are threatening me in every different way -- with death, kin,apping, arrest, extradit lawsuits in every different court. they want to destroy me anyway they can. it is nojust that i think it, it is an objective fact that they are after me en all the diffways they can try to destroy me. jane: bill browder speaking there. late today the white house press secretary tweeted that president trump has asked national security adviser john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall, and the discussions are already underway. it follows the president's comments this morning that he is looking forward to the second meeting. this was the reaction of tti director of al intelligence to that news, which seemed to come as a bit of a surprise. >> the white house hasttnnounced on t that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. mr. coats:

well what are what i mean by that you might remember the notorious hermitage capital case bound by mr browder according to our investigators a group of people he and business associates illegally and more than half of me as a one point five billion u.s. dollars which they didn't pay a cent of taxes but they transferred. at the money to the u.s. and they also donated four hundred million to the clinton campaign four hundred million well they might have done it legally but they earned that money either legally and we do have evidence to believe that some of the u.s. security services. have helped. to conduct those illegal. transfers but there's just one step we can talk about expanding our car wasn't there a multiple options there on the table and there was a pilot of the did you want president. did you direct any of your officials to help him do that. yes i wanted him to weigh in on that and he talked about the need to normalize u.s. russian ties but those. continue. to be. two three questions so r.t. but go ahead thank you. good afternoon my name is really up to trying. to. represent our team

mr. browder have earned over $1.5 million in russia. they never paid any taxes. neither in russia nor the united states. and yet the money was transferred to the united states. they sent a huge ament of money, $400 million out of the contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. but that's their personal case. it might have been legal. the contribution itself. but the way the money was earned was illegal. so we have reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. so we have an interest of question now. that could be a first step. we can also extend it. they all can be found in an appropriate legal flamework. >> did you want president trump to win the election? and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? president putin: bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. i think there are three questions from the russian pool. ou have the floor. >> thank you so much. rt tv is ilya petrenko, channel. mr. president, would you please go into the details of possibly any specific arrangements for the

we'll speak to mr browder on the programme. anwhile mr trump's head of homeland security says russia is a threat to all 50 american states and the us should expect them to interfere in this year's election. also on the programme. the uk's new brexit secretary meets his opposite number in brussels, on the day the commission warns businesses in europe to prepare for "no deal". and... setting fire to fashion. burberry admits it burns over 20 million dollars of its goods every year to protect the brand. get in touch with us using the hashtag... 'beyond—one—hundred—days' hello and welcome — i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. one particular exchange during the helsinki press conference between presidents trump and putin is getting alot of attention today. mr putin offered to give american investigators access to 11 russians indicted in the mueller probe last week. but there was a condition. in return russia would be given the right to question 11 americans — including bill browder, a financier who lobbied c

mr. browder in this particular case. the associates of mr. sia. they never paid any taxes. neither in russia nor the united date and they escape the country. cofounder of hermitage capital management. all right, bill, did you follow up your chair when you saw and heard that yesterday? >> i was actually not watching the news conference but as it happened, but my mobile phone started melting with messages and notifications and all of a sudden i thought whoa, what is going on here. that's when i found out i was at the tip of vladimir putin's tom. for me it is not a surprise. i've been under his skin for a long time. i have come up with a piece of legislation named the magnets be act which freezes assets and amd says of him and his cronies for doing human rights abuses named after my lawyer who was murdered in russia by the putin regime. so putin is really mad at me. it's no surprise he brought it up. he's been talking about me for a long time. generally he doesn't like to bring up the name of his enemies, but in my case he so mad. stuart: one tim

mr. browder, in this particular case. business associates of mr. owder have earned over $1.5 billion in russia. they never paid any taxes, neither in russia nor the united states. and yet the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. >> one of the most shocking things to come out of that now infamous helsinki news conference was putin calling out american-born businessman and staunch putin critic bill browder by name and demanding russian operatives be able to interrogate him, along with several other americans. even more shocking is the president of the united states donald trump called it, quote, an incredible offer, only to backtrack a few days later. joining me is bill browder, head of the global magnitsky campaign. thank you for joining me. >> it's great to be here. >> bill, the most obvious question is, what did you think when you heard the dictator of russia call you out by name? >> well, i should point out that for most americans, this is probably the first time they've heard vladimir putin calling out my name, b

mr. browder have earned over 1.5 billion in russia. ever paid any taxes and yet the money escapes the country. >> reporter: an accusation browder denies. putin was straight faced when he accused of browder of being behind the death of his own lawyer. >> translator: i believe browder is his name. >> reporter: behind the dead pan tones, there is by most accounts a seething hatred that vladimir putin has for the american born financier who is now a british citizen. browder spoke about that. >> the russian government has made numerous death threats against me. they want to kill me. they'd like to kidnap me, have me arrested. >> reporter: putin hates browder because he spear headed the magnitsky act. >> i have found his achilles heel. i've created a legal mechanism to seize that money. he feels personally aggrieved and he has a vendetta against me. >> reporter: analysts say he has struck a nerve with putin that few other enemies have, a threat to the roots of his power. >> if individual members of h-- starts to open the question to them of w

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mr browder spoke to the bbc‘s 100 days a short time ago.in's number one enemy. it's certainly in many different ways, with kidnapping, with death, with extradition. they want to destroy me a nyway extradition. they want to destroy me anyway they can. i think the president quickly understood that there would be effectively a civil war in washington if the trump administration handed over me and ten patriotic americans who have been serving governments trying to contain russia. that would not have gone over very well for anybody in washington. bill browder. a short time ago, i spoke to suzanne kianpourfrom bbc news investigations team. i asked her if we knew who the president really believes. president trump has a really interesting relationship with the intelligence community. we've seen him call them the deep state and what is interesting is his effectively having to use the whipping boys that usually has as cover. he's had to double down and admit his mistake. i was told by a former obama intelligence official that when he received the hig

mr. browder, he has been harassed for years by the russian government because they use the int ee rrinterpol for a them to say on the record if they did anything to us there would be grave concentrations. i think it's a low probability event but it's not a zero probability event, and the u.s. government should stand up and make sure it is a zero probability event. >> so what you're saying is via i interpol, they could stop you, say, at an airport or some sort of security checkpoint and then wre wreak havoc with your plans? is that what you're talking about? >> the first step is they have to indict me with a crime. if you read what they said, that's what they're planning to do. we are suspects in a docockamam crazy story, that bill was laundering money out of russia, that putin helped him do that. putin said $400,000 to the clinton campaign. complete nutty nonsense, right? but if they indict us, they can then go to interpol and be shipped to russia. they don't allow this kind of use with their system, but bill browder was detained in spain, i believe, and we need to publicly push back on it s

mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. ver paid any taxes. neither in russian nor to the united states. and yet, the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent $400 million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. it might have been legal, the contribution itself. but the way the money was earned was illegal. we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. there could be a first step. we can also extend it. options abound. and they all can be found in appropriate legal framework. >> 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. >> translator: i think there can be three questions from the russian pool. you have the floor. >> translator: thank you so much. good evening to everyone. my name is ilya. rt tv channel. >> in english. mr. president, would you please go into the details of pos

mr. browder has been living unseveral years now. >> and the u.s.ernment officials can usually expect their government to protect them. michael mcfaul. i'm sorry about the circumstances and you're one of the americans caught up in this. thanks for talking to us about it. >> sure. thanks for having me. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. other side effects include upper

mr. browder.y need to make clear that is a red line the united states government will not top rate. >> they end up in terrible circumstances as we point out in graphics on the screen. i ask you then. you said that had met with them, you hope to speak to them. what is your message to donald trump, the state department about this offer that vladimir putin has made? >> the president of the united states needs to come out and categorically denounce it. it's crazy. maybe he doesn't understand it. i want to give him the benefit o the doubt, right? maybe it's a reason not to sit down with him in the future. i want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but now he needs to correct the record and stand up strong. what the president doesn't understand, he looks weak in the eyes of putin when he doesn't push back on elementary things like that. >> very, very quickly, there's some who want to come and speak. an interpreter would be difference than a stenographer. do you know if that would serve a purpose? >> i

mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. never paid any taxes. neither in russia nor in the united states. yet, the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent a huge amount of money, $400 million, as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. that's a personal case. it might have been legal. the contribution itself. but the way the money was earned was illegal. we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. we have an interest in questioning them. it could be a first step, and we can also extend it. options abound. they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. >> did you want president trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help them do that? >> ye >> translator: yes, i did. he talked about bringing the russian relationship back to normal. three questions from the russian pool. you have the floor. >> translator: thank you so much. good evening to everyone. >> mr. president, wo

mr. browder in this particular case. >> bret: and then today, this.

mr. browder to have to worry whether or not they would be served up on a silver platter to mr. putin by the president of the united states is despicable. >> i think it's well put. and it's one of the many things that the white house may be trying to run from tonight with the other moves it's making which are obviously newsworthy, the invite to the white house for putin, and yet was a remarkable piece of state craft over these last few days that it was even, as you say, put out there. ambassador ginsburg, my thanks to you. and senator, who comes on this show, but likes a lot of other shows. sam seder, thank you as well. >>> bob mueller's key items that reveal his trial strategy. >>> we will show you how trump tv is tied up in knots over the russia controversy, a brewing civil war. >>> and also, this is important, new ethics questions about that man, one of mueller's top critics on capitol hill. i'm ari melber, and you're watching "the beat" on msnbc. ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created ex

mr. browder. joining us right now is the man, bill browder.horn in putin's side now for several years. bill, it's good to see you this morning thanks for joining us. >> great to be here. maria: look i know you a lot of years, bill and we've talked about your story for a lot of years but even then, for me, after knowing the story as well as i do, i've got chills down my back when i heard vladimir putin mentioned your name. what did you think? >> well, i should point out that he's been mentioning my name on a regular basis for the last six years. in fact i would go so far as so say vladimir putin is obsessed with me. he's obsessed because i was the one responsible forgetting the magnitsky act passed in 2012 which sanctions putin and his corruption for human rights violations and he hates that. maria: so tell us about that because just to briefly go threw your story at one point, one of the leading investors in russia. you owned a lot of russian companies, russian stocks in your capital fund you were living between moscow and london , traveling b

mr. browder, that was all orchestrated by the putin government. that's the reason why we passed originally the magnitsky act. it's now a global magnitsky act. i worked with senator mccain to get that done. we did that to make it clear that the fruits of their corruption could not be hidden in the hides aunited states and be denied the opportunity to visit the united states. it's working. putin despises that law and it's having an impact. >> they're already preparing for a second summit in the fall with vladimir putin right here in washington. john bolton was instructed to go ahead and issue the formal invitation to putin. what's your reaction? >> wolf, we first need to understand what happened at the first summit. we saw the president's news conference. it was shocking to all of us. clearly we knew that in moscow they were smiling and in the white house they were scrambling to either deal with the mistakes that were made. let's find out what happened in that room. it's shocking that the director of national intelligence to this moment still doesn'

mr. browder in this particular case. >> bret: and then today, this. >> they named several americans they wanted to question they claimed were involved in bill browder's crimes in their terms. it is president trump open to that idea? >> there was some conversation about it, but there wasn't a commitment made on behalf of the united states and the president will work with his team and we will let you know if there's an announcement on that front. >> martha: good evening, everybody. i martha maccallum and this is the story. bill browder was once a successful american businessman working in russia until 2005 when he was suddenly expelled from the country. his company was seized by russian authorities and used then in a massive tax fraud scheme. he then hired russian lawyer sergei make nitschke, a name that you have heard a lot of lately to investigate what was going on. he was then thrown into a russian prison. he died there after being beaten and denied medical care. ever since then, bill browder has campaigned to punish russia and he says his efforts have made him vladimir putin's number o

mr. browder. >> welcome to our very timely discussion today. i was just told to remind everyone that we are using the #russiafactor. timelythis is a very discussion today. we have a high-level panel that will be able to provide context to recent events such as the new mueller indictment of the 12 g are you officials and the charge -- gru officials and the charges against a woman. as well as putin's comments

mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. /2 million dollars in russia. they never paid any taxes neither in russia or in the united states and yet the money escaped the country. they were transferred to the united states. they sent huge amount of money, $400 million as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. that's a personal case. it might have been legal. the contribution itself but the way the money was earned was illegal. so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. so we have an interest in questioning them. that could be a first step and we can also extend it. options abound. and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. >> did you direct yi of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. >> i think there can be three questions from the russian pool. you have the floor. >> thank you so much. good evening to everyone. from the tv chann

mr. browder in this particular case. the business associates of mr.er have earned over $1.5 million in russia. the never paid any taxes, neither in russia or the united states and yet the money escape the country and was transferred to the united states. they sent huge amount of money, $400 million out of the country as a contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton. that is a personal case. it might have been legal. the contribution itself, by the way the money was earned was illegal. we have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, accompanied and guided these transactions. so we have an interest in question. there could be a first step and we can extend it. options abound. they all can be found and brought under legal framework. >> did you direct any of your officials to do that? >> yes i did. yes i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s. russia relationship back to normal. >> [ russian language being spoken ] >> there are three questions from the russian pole. -- pool. >> good evening to everyone. my name is -- mr. presid

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mr. browder, his book you put in the interpol system and he has been harassed for years by the russian governmenturposes. >> joining us now is bill browder we were talking about. last sunday, vladamir putin called him out by name during this is news conference with president trump. it's great to have you back. can i ask you what was going through your head when you watched that news conference. >> while the rest of the world was shocked putin was bringing up my name. he has been bringing it up since 2012, sis an act was passed after my murdered russian lawyer, the magnitsky act. from my perspective, it was more of the same. in fact before the summit i thought about tweeting i wonder if putin will bring up my name would be too self-centered, turns out not. >> you have been in interaction with the putin government for a while. did the president get taken for a ride? what happened? >> i think he was woefully underprepared and probably didn't know about me and sir magnitsky or anything like that and probably didn't know anything about putin's indecent proposals for swapping me and a bunch of other ru

mr. browder have earned 1 and a half billion dollars in russia, they never paid any taxes, neither in russianin the united states and yet the money escaped the country, they were transferred to the united states. they sent huge amount of money, 400 million as contribution to the campaign of hillary clinton, that's personal case, it might have been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money was earned it was illegal. so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided this transactions, so we have an interest of questioning them. that could be a first step and we can also extend it, options are bound and they all can be found in appropriate legal framework. >> and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did because he talked about bringing the u.s. russia relationship back to normal. i think there can be three questions from the russian pool, you have the floor. >> thank you so much. good evening to everyone, my name is elia. >> possibly any specific arrangements for the u.s. to work together with russia

browder have mr. 1.5 million in russia. they never pay taxes in russia or the united states, and get the money who escaped the country was transferred to the united states. they sent a huge amount of million00 mai dollars, to the campaign of hillary credit. the way the money was earned was illegal. we have reason to believe that some intelligence officers guided these transactions. so we have an interest in questioning them. that can be a first step and we can also extend it. they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework. >> did you direct any of your officials to do that? president putin's translator: bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal -- i think there are three questions from the russian pool. you have the floor. >> thank you so much. good evening to everyone. ilya patrenko. >> mr. president, would you please go into the details of possibly any specific arrangements for the u.s. to work together with russia in any of these kinds of arrangements were made today or discussed? russian]g ing in pom

mr. bill browder. this just reeks of collusion. so, i would like to know exactly what that investigation entailed. >> sure. i would look forward to receiving that document. i think if you allow me -- allow us to get back to you with exactly what's been done, i think that would be a more effective way of answering your question. >> is there any mechanism for holding csic on their account? there's a hold on their $6 million now that has finally gotten their attention. two days before i had my hearing, the constitutional court found in their favor. we're talking 19 years, 14 years, 14 years. people don't get that many years for murder in guatemala. and csig then appealed that ruling and is now -- now there's going to be another prosecution of at least igor, which is absurd. if i was doing that with my family, and i would say the same to you, wouldn't you use every means possible to get out of a country that is going after you, trying to -- hurting your daughter, putting you into prison and maybe even killing you? we learned that from