>> vladimir kara-murza: it's our country.have to fight for it. >> stahl: he told us this last june. he went back immediately after, even though threats against him had intensified, like this video posted on instagram putting him in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. he was continuing his opposition work, when this past february-- >> yevgenia kara-murza: all of a sudden, he begins experiencing this very elevated heart rate, his blood pressure drops very low. he begins sweating and he has trouble breathing. >> stahl: his wife thinks her husband was attacked, the same way as before. >> yevgenia kara-murza: the first time, he had been dragged from one hospital to another to yet another, where they were trying to establish the cause. this time, he was taken directly to the hospital, to the same medical team that had treated him in 2015. and the moment they saw him, they knew what they were dealing with. >> stahl: and what do you think happened? >> yevgenia kara-murza: the russian doctors' official diagnosis is an acute intoxication

vladimir yakunin ran russian railways for a decade and was a close putin adviser.much so the us made him a target of sanctions after the invasion of crimea. he left the railway two years ago. is he still a true believer in the putin project? vladimiryakunin, welcome to hardtalk. hello. i think it's fair to say, you, for a decade more, were one of vladimir putin's closest associates and advisers. in general terms, as you look at putin's impact upon russia, would you say that you believe he is taking russia in a very positive direction? thank you for your introduction. listen, to tell the truth, i never considered myself a voice to be in the position to be considered an adviser of mr putin. i was doing my business, i was ceo, i was the head of the project, that is true, but i never was the adviser, to either the prime minister or the president of the russian federation. as far as your question is concerned, i suppose that is the knowledge and i suppose the reference is to the poll showing that people in russia believe that his execution of power was in favour of deve

some in russia believe that vladimir putin decided... let them believe. seems you became a problem was because it was publicised — and again, i think this may be something to do with alexei navalny — it became clear that your own son, your own son. . . don't make him a hero. he is not so powerful to make problems. let's get to the point. your own son lives in a very expensive house in london and actually took british citizenship... what do you mean by "very expensive house?" worth many millions of english pounds. exactly. do you know the sum? i believe it was almost £5 million. that is a very huge sum of money. yes. indeed. and it was bought with some credit. is this something very different from the others living here? it's probably different from the way that most people live but the point isn't about the vast property empire, it's about the british passport. russia today is full of official noise about how the west is against russia, how the west is trying to undermine and destroy russia, and your own son was seen to be taking british citizenship. that

>>> and new details on that megyn kelly one-on-one exclusive interview with vladimir putin. what is he saying about whether the trump administration wanted to lift sanctions? those details next. >>> but we begin with live pictures of new york and washington, d.c. that is where demonstrators have gathered for the so-called march for truth. the demonstrations are being held in more than 130 cities here in the u.s. as well as around the world. they're a ramp-up of calls for an independent commission to investigate russia's meddling in the u.s. election and its ties to the trump campaign. now today's event coming on the heels of russian president vladimir putin once pushing back on allegations that russia meddled in the u.s. election. in fact here's what he told my colleague, megyn kelly, on the subject of sanctions during an economic forum in st. petersburg yesterday. >> there are reports today in the american press that the trump administration took active steps to ease sanctions on russia, almost immediately after trump took office. was this possibility ever discussed between

putin, because president trump has talked a lot about vladimir putin. >> vladimir putin is probably saying what has he done for me lately? >> we have seen embracing of other world leaders of the same way. he may consider sanctions. that point of hacking evidence came out, you know obama admission is recorded on the hacking of the jury election. it is becoming extremely impossible. that's when we saw the cooling off and no more of this rhetoric and the u.s. government is saying cresa saying crimea is part of ukraine and the public statement have shifted to be apart from vladimir putin. no, they're not friends and they spoken on the phone three times and they have not met in person yet. we might be able to have a relationship and that was pretty much the end of it. >> the russians know that politically it is not as if there is going to be a warming there any time soon. >> hillary clinton talks about the russia's investigation yesterday and i am wondering, you know, what did you think of what she said about the investigati investigation. coming up now, this point and time of the issue

vladimir putin facing questions from u.s. megyn kelly. slamming u.s. reports. >> in those reports there is no specific evidence, no facts, just assumptions and allegations and con can collusions based on allegations, nothing more. >> they say it is the forensics, the digital fingerprints, the encryption keys, the specific pieces of code, that all of them point to russia. >> what fingerprints? whose prints? who are you talking about? the reports can be invented. specialists can invent it. >> this ahead of her exclusive interview to come with vladimir putin to air on opportunity night on nbc. the artful dodger outside of that conference in st. petersburg. a top banker running away from kier simmons and his questions about jared kushner. >> i wanted to ask you about the meeting you had with jared kushner. >> we really want to hear, please just explain what happened in the meeting. >> and it's not easy being green, the president's decision to exit the paris climb deal sparking widespread outrage from ceos, foreign leaders, members of his own party, and thi

vladimir putin. what's your take?> well, i think what he's getting at, is this question of attribution with cyber attacks and right in that there's never a smoking gun. very difficult to say we have this i.p. address, we know it came from this house in kiev. right. but it's actually not impossible to figure out where cyber attacks are coming from. i spoke to somebody at the johns hop kips physics applied laboratory they're working on this problem for congress and there are signatures that people leave behind. there are habits that hackers get into. and so what megyn pointed out is right, taken in totality looking at a little bit of the isp address but also just the, you know, the signatures, the kind of code that's used, the way the code was compiled, all of these things together, sometimes it's even the dates on which the hacksere done, can point to a country. not absolutely, but reblyly. it's not impossible to figure this stuff out. >> is the takeaway, you can't get me? >> yeah. >> well the takeaway is every intelli

he bragged about his relationship with vladimir putin. there are all kinds of touch points there that continued in the campaign and after. obviously, at this point, vladimir putin engaged in an effort to under mine our democracy and to sway our election towards donald trump, donald trump seems to have some strange allegiance to vladimir putin putin, if there's one thing he is consistent about, that is it. we are learning the nature of the relationship. and by the end of this, we will get to the bottom of it. but they are both advantaged in downplaying the nature of that now, because look, there's a special council investigating a, you know, a broad range of his staffers. they are in hot water on both sides. >> i have to run, thank you. have a great weekend. when we come back, team trump has he glowing praise for the president, what does it really mean? i will ask a language expert what is behind their words. >>> the way team trump talks about the president may tell you everything that you need to know about what is going on behind the sce

vladimir putin knows his audience. that is why he said it. he knows by saying the cia could be involved. the people that support him from other countries, they know when they hear that that it is believable to them. that is their mind set. jeremy, i want to turn to james comey's testimony or set to testify this coming thursday before the senate intel committee. this time he is there as a former fbi director. how much do you think he is actually going to say? >> it is worth noting also that he is testifying for the first time since we learned jared kushner withheld and did not disclose his contact with russian officials during the transition. it will be interesting to see the senators probe him on that subject. i don't know how much he will be willing to give up on that. i'm actually interested less in what comey has to say than in what donald trump's response to comey is. a president who has shown very little ability to restrain himself when it comes to responding to comey. comey seems to push certain buttons with trump like few others do. i

laura: vladimir putin is a former kgb operative.e understands the importance of television -- oliver: yes, everybody does. laura: are you concerned he's using you to send a message -- oliver: perhaps he is -- laura: that isn't really a true one? , butr: an elaborate ruse he knows i'm not going to change american policy, but what i would like to do is contribute to a consciousness of what he is saying. laura: you asked vladimir putin directly, did russia hack the u.s. election, and he told you it is all lies. do you accept that? oliver: he didn't put it that way but he thought it was a preposterous statement. laura: but do you believe him? oliver: absolutely. i absolutely believe it is all smoke and no fire there. laura: was there one moment that you feel is so revealing that you would like everyone to see it or one moment that stands out? oliver: laura, for me, if you were really open-minded, it is all revealing. from the get-go, it is what he talks, how he talks, his view of the world is something we need to hear. laura: oliver sto

vladimir putin disavowed it. that's also an important moment because it takes away the possibility for republicans in the senate to say this was anything other than a hostile foreign attack on the american electoral process. >> it does seem that the cover stories keep getting whisked away. "the washington post" came out and reveal that the house intelligence committee which spent a lot of time talking about unmaxing and devin nunes that. >> did it as well. last year the republican-controlled house intelligence committee asked u.s. spy agencies to reveal the names of individuals and organizations containing classified intelligence on russia's meddling in the 2016 election. same practice they accused obama of there. doesn't seem to be a lot of cover left. >> let's be honest. this unmasking thing is completely a partisan shield that republicans are trying to use to protect the president. we're talking about a fact pattern that is very concerning, and that i think robert mueller get to the bottom of. remember, we had

you can hear from vladimir putin himself. president has agreed to sit down with megyn kelly for an exclusive one-on-one interview. this is a video of them greeting each other today. you can catch the interview this sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern for sunday night with megyn kelly. that is all in. >>> tonight on "all in." >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 133 of the still young trump

vladimir putin sakhir for four vladimir putin sakhirforfour hours answering questions. —— sat here. to portray him as the father of the nation. he was swamped by questions from russians. in a country like russia where it all decisions are made by one man, vladimir putin, they believe he is the only one who can fix the problems. what did they ask in? why are wages so low in russia? 1—woman who had her house burned down and asked him to buy her a new house. they also talked about us—russian relationships, allowing vladimir putin tojoke he relationships, allowing vladimir putin to joke he could give relationships, allowing vladimir putin tojoke he could give james comey political asylum. translation: when the chief of the special service as a conversation with the commander—in—chief and gives it through social media, what is the difference between the fbi director and mr snowden? isn't he a human right supporter at that time? we are also ready to provide political asylu m also ready to provide political asylum for him in russia. let him know about that. afterwards, i asked president pu

it does play into vladimir putin's hands. >> absolutely.only time article 5 was eve invoked was by nato without o prompting on 1212, 2001. the united states was attacked as far as nato was concerned and every one of those countries came to our defense and served in afghanistan for ten years, lost hundreds of trumoops. donald trump going to brussels and not aif i recalling that the united states would stand with nato difinitively gave moscow what they've always wanted. which is a fracture. >> we were carrying on with nato countries about not paying their fair share. but the only time that alert went up is when america was attacked. >> this payment thing, it is all targets set for 2024. on military spending. if we were to add in all the additional spending they spent in afghanistan, including the blood and treasure that they lost, the people that they lost, they would be paid up to date. this isn't mar-a-lago country club. vladimir putin is getting everything he wants out of donald trump. that uncertainty as to whether we would defend latvia,

your thoughts about the vladimir putin you saw today. you covered him for a long time before he was daily dinner conversation at arngd the dinner tables in this country. did you see anything new out of him? he sort of, like, keir was referencing a desire to sort of put more effort into his pr among his business community. did you see anything that looked like greater effort, or greater concern about how he's perceived in this country? >> well, it wasn't exactly a charm offensive, was it? i mean, you know, putin has this unique combination of sort of victimization combined with aggressiveness, right? sort of on the one hand, everybody's beating up on russia. on the other hand, you know, let's make fun of the west when they're having troubles. and he seemed at points in that conversation with megyn kelly almost to be, you know, very, very pleased and tickled even by the internal squabbles in nato and asked him flat-out about that. he said, yes, of course, it's going to resound to russia's benefit, but i want to make the point on the russia

you can hear from vladimir putin himself.agreed to sit down with megyn kelly for an exclusive one-on-one interview. this is a video of them greeting each other today. you can catch the interview this sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern for sunday night with megyn kelly. that is all in. rachel maddow starts now. ari in for rachel. >> good evening, chris. one question. why won't you move on? >> here's the thing. i'll move on as soon as i know what the heck happened, which continues to be the thing that makes me not move on. >> i think with journalism, sometimes you keep searching for the actual facts until you're all done. thank you, chris. >> eventually we're going to learn. >> i appreciate it. i want to thank everyone at home for joining us this hour. i want to tell you rachel is still under the weather. we spoke with her tonight. she wan

when they spoke publicly they didn't even name vladimir putin. if the president had been more prominent, we're talking six weeks before the american election, if the president had been more prominent in october or november last year, i can guarantee what people would have said. i'm skeptical of the intel because this suggests to me that the president of the united states is trying to make this campaign more about hillary clinton as the victim of russian attacks and favor donald trump. the white house had a difficult choice. talk about it and look like they're favoring hillary, or not talk about it and you see what they get now. they're too soft. >> we knew they were favoring hillary. >> this is using intel as a hammer against republicans. >> because the president was informed in july by the cia they had the evidence, super secret, that putin personally ordered this intervention, and it wasn't until, what, october 7 when that statement from the administration was put out basically saying, yes, high level officials in russia. they didn't name putin

is this typical vladimir putin on russian television?ll, it is actually a familiar story line on his part. let's flash back three years to the ukraine. and all these what they called little green men who suddenly showed up in crimea, you know, facilitating what would ultimately be the annexation by russia. putin saying these aren't my troops. these aren't my people. these may be patriotic russians who happened to be on vacation in crimia. weeks later you essentially had him bragging about the fact that they had this operation he called it that they in fact were russian operatives, russian soldiers who were there doing that. so you see in the past where he sort of keeps a hands off posture, at least, off of something that clearly benefits his government. and there is not a lot of people who probably believe there is a lot of independent -- independence to anybody who might bihacing the u.s. government from russia. >> but what do we know about russian citizens' reaction to those kinds of statements? a, it might be some patriotic russian vo

she had the opportunity to talk with russian president vladimir putin.ressed him on several issues including whether had there was an agreement with the u.s. to ease economic sanctions. >> yeah, that's right. president putin denied, denied .denied again. he denied that the russian government was involved in hacking. he denied that the russians intervened in the u.s. elections and he denies there was any type of trump transition team in the idea of lifting sanctions. take a listen. >> that is just absurd what they're saying. i don't know where these people have come from that distribute this kind of information. my answer is no, no agreements whatever. we never even got down to that. >> and in the next hour, dara, we'll have more from st. petersburg looking in depth in that putin interview. meanwhile, president putin himself has left the conference here. you can see think of it, dara, as a kind of opening act if you like. we expect president putin to meet with president trump at the g-20 in july. that is going to be something. >> kier, we know megan is an

donald trump seems to have some strange allegiance to vladimir putin.e's one thing he's consistent about, that's it. we're still learning what the nature of that relationship is. i think by the end of this we'll get to the bottom of it. but they're both advantaged in downplaying the nature of that. look, there's a special counsel investigating a broad range of trump's staffers. they're in hot water on both sides. >> i've got to run. thank you, evan. have a great weekend. when we come back, team trump has some glowing praise for the president, but what does it really mean? i'm going to ask a language expert what's behind the words. yet some cards limit where you earn bonus cash back to a few places. and then, change those places every few months. enough with that! with quicksilver from capital one you've always earned unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. welcome to unlimited what's in your wallet? i'm lumy bargain detergent shifcouldn't keep up.ter. so, i switched to tide pods. they're super concentrated, so i get a better clean. numbe

but what would the motive be in the case of the critic vladimir karamerza?ridge educated, he was for years a washington-based reporter for a russian tv station. so he was well connected and had perfect english, which he used to incessantly criticize the regime on the international stage. >> a government that is based on genuine support does not need to jail its opponents. >> reporter: as if 'tis outspokenness wasn't enough to anger the kremlin, he made matters worse for himself when he joined forces with this man. >> it's death if you cross the putin regime. >> reporter: bill browder was for years the largest foreign investor in russia, and putin's champion. but he turned into a dogged adversary when his russian tax attorney sergei magnitsky blew the whistle on alleged large-scale theft by government officials. >> we discovered massive corruption of the putin regime. sergey exposed it, testified against officials involved. he was subsequently arrested, put in pretrial detention, tortured for 358 days, and killed at the age of 37. >> reporter: browder was so

this is vladimir putin unplugged but with a dose of calculation.ladimir putin, appearing on stage in marathon interview forum today. russian leader surprising the audience in english. >> don't worry, be happy ♪ . >> envoc the 80s singer, describing the anger around president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement. but in his native tongue, the former soviet spy turned president, was talking about interference in the u.s. president election while attacking hillary clinton saying her campaign just can't admit its own mistakes caused her loss. >> translator: they decided to say it's not our fault, it's the russians' fault. it is like anti-semitism, to blame the jews for everything. we know what this can lead to, nothing good. >> at the same time, putin spoke i admiringly of trump's campaign. >> the trump team was more effective during the campaign. he spoke to an electorate that worked for him. >> but he wasn't done there. with the russian quote patriots, not the russian quote, government, might have hacked the u.s. election, puti

vladimir putin is certainly taking pleasure in the chaos it's created. katy, what i learned from working in this sphere for four years with the fbi and the russian intelligence, the number one priority of any intelligence agency is not attribution. that is to say, your goal besides kind of completingour mission, is to make sure if it's compromised that there are no ways to trace it back to that host country. i think vladimir putin is pretty confident that when it comes to attribution, when it comes to a traditional, sort of legal standard of proof, we're not going to find that when it comes to this intelligence operation. i think he's really kind of poking his finger at us about that and taking great pleasure at our expense. >> he's obviously not going to admit to this, but is the biggest asset right now the president's lukewarm condemnation -- if you can even call it that -- toward russia for the hacking. >> right, and it's not just a lukewarm condensation. if you look at the pattern of deception to the pattern of being consistently not even lukewarm, b

vladimir putin's involvement in hacking the election. the struggle not only to punish vladimir putin for launching the attack, but problem wanted to protect the united states from anymore harm. one of the "washington post" reporters on the story described it to me a short time ago. >> obama wanted to avoid the worst case scenario, the russians intervened to try to actually affect the voting itself on election day, on or before election day. that was the priority. he didn't want to retaliate before the election for fear it would provoke putin to make things worse. they decided to go after the election. when they started having the debate over what to do, of course you have different institutions, state department, cia, the treasury department, they all wanted to protect their own equities in this. the result was a more watering down approach, which required susan rice in a key meeting to basically say, you know, put, you know, stop, you know, stop bickering among yourselves, let's settle on this package. that said, that package could be c

we are watching vladimir putin right now.this, mika, this guy is trolling. it is absolutely unbelievable. he's now lecturing us on climate change and vladimir putin, when he speaks, the whole world stops. this is -- this guy -- >> perfect -- >> this guy -- >> he slipped into a tub of butter. >> this is perfect. i remember watching the debates during the election season and questions kept coming back to russia, to putin. it was perfect for him. this is what he wants. this is -- he wants us to talk about him. him lecturing us on climate change is rich because russia is banking on climate change happening on the climate warming. >> right. >> because of all the oil and gas buried under the arctic and which is now really hard to access, which is why he was so against sanctions against exxon and particularly why now secretary of state rex tillerson was so against sanctions. >> wow. >> they needed -- they can't access those reserveshemselves right now. they're too difficult to get to given the weather conditions and the like the geo

the "post" story reveals that obama knew russian president vladimir putin was directly involved in the russian meddling in the election and chronicles the super-secretive and strained play-by-play of what the obama administration did do mostly through sanctions which even administration officials admit were mostly symbolic. let's get more on this from cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is live at the white house. ryan? >> boris, the president now seemingly conceding the fact that russia was involved in intervening in the american election last fall. this is something that he has pushed back on and suggested that perhaps russia wasn't the only ones responsible for that for sometime to come. but he's doing it in a way to put the blame on president obama and his administration. listen to what the president tells fox news in an interview set to air tomorrow. >> well, i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election. and he did nothing about it. but nobody wants to talk about that. the c.i.a. gave him information on russia a long t

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russia, under vladimir putin, it's not russia all the time, it's under vladimir putin has decided thatt is a threat, they seek to dismantle western unity between our allies in europe and us, that he's not afraid to annex territory in europe. that's something that we thought we got rid of after world war ii. that happened. and most audaciously, he violated our sovereignty in our presidential election. that's pretty threatening. if we can't choose our leaders independently and in a sovereign way, that's a pretty major threat to the sovereignty of the united states of america. so we need to take this threat seriously. we need to contain it. we need to deter it. first and foremost it starts by recognizing it as a threat, which sometimes when i listen to our president that he doesn't seem to recognize it as a threat. >> so on the heels of what you've just said, i have to ask you what went through your mind when you saw "the washington post" on the u.s. at least weighing the possibility of returning those compounds in new york and maryland to russia. there was a former diplomat on our air sa

and revealing it was directly ordered by vladimir putin. the washington post detailing that intelligence sources had captured putin's own instructions to disrupt and discredit the presidential race, with the goal of defeating or hurting hillary clinton and helping donald trump. the cia delivered the intelligence by courier to president obama in august. the post's interviews with former senior obama administration officials revealed the frustrations now among some of them that more was not done to punish russia. quoting one, it's the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. they say the administration was worried about appearing to try to influence the election themselves as well as provoking russia. one official explained, our primary interest in august, september and october was to prevent them from doing the max they could do. and after the election, some of the harsher options for punishing russia like a massive cyberattack on them, or sweeping sanctions faced concerns and roadblocks from

vladimir putin dijo que algunas rusas pudieran haber pirateado correos durante la campaÑa. >> vladimira informaciÓn cibernÉtica de estados unidos. >> los hackeadores son libres, si son patriotas, contribuyendo de la manera que consideran correcta para luchar contra quienes dicen cosas malas sobre rusia. >> se burlÓ de las acusaciones de que estos piratas influyeran en el resultado de las elecciones de estados unidos. hillary clinton era la enemiga de los rusos por sus crÍticas como secretaria de estado en la campaÑa 2016. >> vladimir putin sabe que la evidencia va a salir a la luz mÁs tarde que temprano. lo mismo estÁ diciendo si esta persona son patriotas, lo mejor para rusia es el presidente trump. reportera: senadores demÓcratas pidieron al fbi que investiguen si el fiscal general sessions tuvo una reuniÓn que no ha reportado con el embajador en washington. si se determina que no ha sido veraz, debe renunciar. >> puede ser un lapso administrativo, yo no llegarÍa conclusiÓn de espionaje algo mayor. >> es muy grave porque significa que no sÓlo mintió la primera vez sino que mintiÓ la

alex, fascinating, and startling, the words coming from vladimir putin today.e've got two things from him in the last couple days. yesterday hinting that hackers were like artists, and they could be patriotic artists, and hinting that the hacks could have come from russia, but today making very clear that he says russian government did not have a hand in it, was not behind it. this is new in this long, drawn-out saga. i'm not sure what it means, though. >> well, it's really sort of expert trolling on the global stage here, right? >> at the very least, yeah. >> you have this kind of wink to the audience that, well, i personally didn't hack, but you know, i don't know about folks out there who are very patriotic. that was very revealing yesterday. today, you've heard putin a number of times over the last year get into sort of intrademocratic party politics. >> yes. >> talking about debbie wasserman schultz and bernie sanders in ways that he has to know are going to be aggravating to people in the united states. none of it i think is terribly helpful to the presid

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vladimir putin is yet to comment on the process.he may use it this yea r‘s the protests. he may use it this year's programme to do so. now to sport and starting with cricket. pakistan stunned england, thrashing them by eight wickets in their champions trophy semi final. eoin morgan's side had been the favourite for the tournament but struggled on a slow pitch in cardiff. jonny bairstow who came into the side hit 43 but wickets tumbled quickly including ben stokes who went for 34 without hitting a single boundary. england madejust 211 which pakistan knocked off in less than 38 overs. they play either india or bangladesh in sunday's final at the 0val in london. it's been confirmed former multi—division boxing world champion floyd mayweather and ufc lightweight champion conor mcgregor will meet in a bout in las vegas on the 26th of august. the 40—year—old mayweather who was undefeated announced his retirement after winning his 49th straight bout against andre berto also in las vegas in september 2015, while mcgregor, the first fighter

this is bascov lane, just steps away from the boyhood home of vladimir putin. what did they think about america? >> it's a good country. >> russia and u.s. should be big partners. >> what do you think president putin wants? >> right now his only goal is to stay in power. >> the best president we have ever had. >> reporter: and their thoughts on president trump? >> he is for a friendly relationship with russia. >> reporter: now mr. putin is facing a critical question. how will he deal with america's new commander in chief? a lot to talk about with president putin when i sit down with him for a one on one interview here in st. petersburg tomorrow. this will be the first time he's sat with an american journalist since the appointment of that special council to look into russian interference into our election. >> megyn, we look forward to that. you can see the exclusive interview on sunday night with megyn kelly this sunday on nbc. >>> the horrifying moments inside a casino resort in the philippines, a gunman believed to be acting alone, stole casino chips, shot a

vladimir putin said nothing today about the protests.uide at the kremlin to a group of children. this is how president putin would rather be seen. not as a corrupt leader but as father of the nation. and certainly not everyone today was in the mood to criticise the government. in moscow, this patriotic festival on the same street as the protest was celebrating russian military might. protests don't make life better, he says, not one revolution has ever brought anything good. up the road, this was no russian revolution but it was a display of defiance from those people, many of them young russians, who believe their country needs change. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. the pressure on president trump over alleged links between his campaign and russia just isn't going away. on tuesday, it's the turn of his attorney general jeff sessions to face lawmakers live on television. he's denied acting improperly. the white house press secretary, sean spicer, says the presidentjust wants to get the issue done with. the president has been clear, l

funding that i got. >> and vladimir putin? >> vladimir putin poses a threat to our democracy and attacked our democracy. i think he's also a threat in eastern europe. he's not a good guy. >> senatorial franken during his visit to this studio. and how you can tell a book by its cover in this case. right back after this. ♪ ♪ let your reign begin. evony, the mobile game. download now. ♪ pressure. i feel it everyday. but at night, it's the last thing on my mind. for 10 years my tempur-pedic has adapted to my weight and shape, relieving pressure points from head to toe. so i sleep deeply and wake up ready to perform. ♪ now through june 11th, save $600 when you buy select tempur-pedic adjustable mattress sets. find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com. >>> while a shortened week by the holiday it's also been a long week. one more note from al franken's visit to our studios. i asked him to take us on a tour of the book cover and thus a tour of his mind. >> you went with a modest option for the cover. why? >> well, i -- you know

vladimir putin's involvement in them and donald trump's secret struggle between fighting back and what he saw as protecting the integrity of the u.s. election. >>> critical condition. another republican senator is out, putting the gop's health care push into a deeper hole. could the president's promise to repeal and replace obamacare be in trouble? >>> plus, out of line. just a week after an assassination attempt on republicans, the secret service is now looking at actor johnny depp for joking about killing the president. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jim sciutto in for jake tapper. a highly detailed account of how u.s. intelligence first learned the alarming extent of russian hacking and alerted the white house. along the way, debates and a lot of second-guessing. kremlin sourcie ining saying it digging deep to say that vladimir putin helped in the russian cyber hacking and president obama saying it put aside critical russian systems if putin didn't cut it out. exactly how the cyber attack was carried out and crucially how to stop another one. let's start with cnn's michelle kozinski

vladimir putin, oliver stone. here it is. [video playing] russian]ing in >>.ng to them as partners. "our partners." he said that too much. charlie: he does not give up. oliver: he stays at the table. he will talk and try to make a peace. this is the issue of nuclear parity, which is very important. he is saying that basically with the american abrogation of the treaty in 2001 under george bush, the nuclear balance is auseting to change bec -- charlie: the russians will have to meet that with more offense of weapons. oliver: they are putting the abms into poland and romania, and the reason given was that there is protection against iran, which he strips that reasoning away. charlie: they were not aiming towards russia. they were aiming towards iran. oliver: in another section, how the abm can be converted into an offensive missile. would not know what was in the air if it was coming to them. they would not know if it was defensive or an offensive missile. we try to show in the maps how they are surrounded on the northeast end -- north, east, and west side. all

vladimir putin wants to change the subject. real subject is he like to take advantage of the void left in eastern europe created by barack obama's failed policies. he reasserted american leadership in the world, he got back and talk about sovereignty and eastern europe, he has backed it up with defense pending numbers and special forces training troops. vladimir hooton wants to talk about this story, which makes him look strong. >> james: do you agree, david? >> i do not think we can give much credence to anything vladimir putin says, whether it be from intervention in u.s. elections all the way through the chemical attack in syria. >> james: but do you agree that president trump is confronting president putin and leading around the world in a much more vigorous way than barack obama? >> i don't know if there is much evidence that he is confronting putin. no question he's taken a very different position internationally than barack obama. i mean, syria... the most obvious example of that. there are tons of stories that come out

and like vladimir putin, the russian president, he was a former kgb spy.e was a former russia intelligence officer. he's an extremely difficult man to track him down but here in st. petersburg he was giving a lecture a few days ago and tried to get some access from him about what exactly it was that was being discussed. >> reporter: mr. gorkov, quick question, what did you really speak to jared kushner about in december? did you talk about sanctions? >> no comment. >> reporter: what was discussed? the white house says it was a diplomatic meeting, that kushner met you as part of the transition team. your bank says it was a business meeting. >> thank you so much. sorry. >> reporter: were you ya condui to the kremlin, mr. gorkov? there's a contradiction, of course, with the different accounts as to what exactly was discussed. the bank says that it was a business meeting that kushner attended as part of kushner properties and discussed the business between the bank and the companies and the white house had a very different take, saying it was a diplomatic meet

in just the last three years, under lat mile an hour putin, -- vladimir putin russia has invaded ukraine, threatened allies and intervened militarily in syria leaving a trail of death, destruction, and broken promises in his wake. and of course last year russia attacked the foundations of american democracy, the cyber and information campaign to interfere in america's 2016 election. it has been eight months, eight months now since the u.s. intelligence community publicly concluded that the government -- that the russian government had attempted to interfere in our last presidential election. on october 7, 2016, the department of homeland security and the office of the director of national intelligence stated, and i quote, the u.s. intelligence community is confident that the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mail from u.s. persons and institutions, including from u.s. political organizations. the statement concluded that, quote, only russia's senior most officials could have authorized these activities. on january 6, 2017, the united states intelligence committee we