presenting vladimir putin, the credits read, in power. nd track is from the broadway show "cats." the ambitious putin may have already been looking toward moscow, because the russian people were desperate for strong leadership. under president boris yeltsin, the new democracy was a mess. >> the entire soviet system, it just collapsed. >> the oligarchs, the men to profited on the spoils of communism became fantasticly rich. >> mercedes benz is selling more of its top line cars in russia than in all of europe. >> but ordinary russians were sinking into desperate poverty. they would die of food shortages, even starvation. >> i don't know how to feed my kids without milk. i just don't know what we're going to do. >> president boris yeltsin was in charge, but he seemed increasingly unstable. ♪ >> his drinking. he's barely being propped up. >> russians began calling for a new leader. >> they're tired of the embarrassment of yeltsin. >> waiting in the wings was vladimir putin. he had taken a job in moscow in the kremlin hierarchy, and he had rise

vladimir putin had navigated hard times well. all and his central bank has kept inflation in check. putin is a fiscal conservative. >> the outward seeming aspect of wealth looks closer to dubai than it does to moscow 30 years ago. just an amazing it's an amazing transformation. >> add to the economics, putin's secret sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2014 after an invasion that shocked the world. >> bigger nations must not be able to bully the small. >> vladimir putin grabbed a piece of ukraine for russia. >> the west was horrified. 6 >> that's the kind of thing adolf hitler did in the 1930s. >> it looked different through russian eyes. >> i have never met a russian that accepted ukraine as a totally separate state. >> many ukrainians deeply resented the invasion. ♪ but not russians. they see it as a revival of a deep sense of power and national destiny. >> putin has given them their pride back. russia is once again a great power. >> putinism is an ideology of social conservatism of anti-westernism, but above all, of national p

vladimir putin has navigated hard times well. ty program, allowed the rouble to fall, and his central bank has kept inflation in check. putin is a fiscal conservative. >> the outward seeming aspect of wealth looks closer to dubai than it does to moscow 30 years ago. it's just an amazing transformation. >> reporter: add to the economics, putin's secret sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2014 after an invasion that shocked the world. >> bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small. >> vladimir putin grabbed a small piece of crukraine for russia. but it all looked very different through russian eyes. >> i have never met a russian who accepted the merger of ukraine into a totally separate state. >> of course, many ukrainians accepted this but not the russians. this is a deep power of national destiny. >> putin has given them their pride back. russia is once again a great power. >> putinism is social conservative of anti-westernism, but above all, of national power. putin might say he has made russia great again. sound famil

presenting vladimir putin, the credits read, in power. he soundtrack is from the broadway show "cats." the ambitious putin may have already been looking toward moscow, because the russian people were desperate for strong leadship. under president boris yeltsin, the new democracy was a mess. >> the entire soviet system, it just collapsed. >> the oligarchs, the men who profited on the spoils of communism became fantastically rich. >> mercedes benz is selling more of its top line cars in russia than in all of europe. >> but ordinary russians were sinking into desperate poverty. they would die of food shortages, even starvation. >> i don't know how to feed my kids without milk. i just don't know what we're going to do. >> president boris yeltsin was in charge, but he seemed increasingly unstable. ♪ >> his drinking. he's barely being propped up. >> russians began calling for a new leader. >> they're tired of the embarrassments of yeltsin. >> waiting in the wings was vladimir putin. he had taken a job in moscow in the kremlin hierarchy, and he h

presenting vladimir putin, the credits read, in power. ound track is from the broadway show "cats." the ambitious putin may have already been looking toward moscow, because the russian people were desperate for strong leadership. under president boris yeltsin, the new democracy was a mess. >> the entire soviet system, it just collapsed. >> the oligarchs, the men to profited on the spoils of communism became fantastically rich. >> mercedes benz is selling more of its top line cars in russia than in all of europe. >> but ordinary russians were sinking into desperate poverty. they would die of food shortages, even starvation. >> i don't know how to feed my kids without milk. i just don't know what we're going to do. >> president boris yeltsin was in charge, but he seemed increasingly unstable. ♪ >> his drinking. he's barely being propped up. >> russians began calling for a new leader. >> they're tired of the embarrassment of yeltsin. >> waiting in the wings was vladimir putin. he had taken a job in moscow in the kremlin hierarchy, and he had

vladimir putin is very smart. sees that division because western civilization in the west has its own problems. what is the real definition of diplomacy. diplomacy in my opinion is make enemy your friend. >> while there were three questions. on the third one, i disagree with you. i think the job of a diplomat is to execute the foreign policy of the country that he serves in, that he or she represents. in fact, i am booked in my neighbor, george schultz. when he was secretary of state, new investors would come in and he used to have this big globe in his office. he would say go point on the globe to your country. i think he writes about it in his book but i think i heard him talent antidote that most of new ambassadors would point and sam going to poland or argentina or south africa. he would spin the globe and say no, that's that's not your country. your country is the united states of america. you are going there to represent us, not to be friends with them. : i never had one meeting with the ambassador. not one,

but vladimir putin viewed that as a threat. in particular in the last number of years, he has decided the best way for him to not just secure his place in russian politics, the best way for him to secure his way in russian politics is through an aggressive foreign policy in which he views is a zero-sum game. we view the world as a place where we can helped rebuild japan, germany. they're stronger and we're stronger. it isn't one or the other. he views the world as a place where in order for russia to be greater america has to be less. in order for him to be more powerful, we have to be less powerful and a world in which he has to undermine democratic principles and try to expose them as fraudulent. it's why you saw the russian intelligence services medal in our elections in 2016. one of the main designs they had was to create doubt and instability in our system of government, discredit it here at home and around the world. i returned from europe a week ago at this time in germany and france who have upcoming elections of their

tell us about this veb bank and those so closely tied to vladimir putin? >> reporter: yeah, some to have characteristics of that bank and sergey gor'kov will raise eyebrows, it is appointed by vladimir putin, the chairman of that bank was himself appoint bid vladimir putin and before that he was actually in senior management at spare bank rush's biggest government owned bank. this is someone who is very close to the russian state, very close to vladimir putin and the bank itself, the russian development bank is one that funds big projects here in russia, funded a lot of the infrastructure that went around the sochi olympics in 2014 and bailed out oligarchs quite close to vladimir putin, so this is a bank very close to the state and vladimir putin and does things for the state when it comes to larger projects. gor'kov graduate from the the intelligence academy here in russia in 1994 and went on to a banking career and at some point worked his way all the way up to the top of the economic development bank and then as far as this meeting is concerned, the ban

vladimir putin which putin advertises all the time. he feels an enormous sense of resentment towards the west. i don't want to be his lawyer by any stretch of the imagination. >> you write so clearly on that part of this story. >> this guy is an autocrat and he has shut down dissent and i don't want to speak from point of moral equivalence but it important to understand what his motivations are in terms of diplomacy, in terms of his military moves. why did he take crimea? why did he take crimea? a lot of it was aimed at the west as well as the situation in ukraine. ukraine was the bridge too far for him. the idea that the west would establish a diplomatic and economic bridge head in a country that putin doesn't even consider a country, he considers it part of the russian heritage. that was a bridge too far. >> stalin was from crimea. >> he was from georgia. >> was he from georgia? somebody was from crimea. oh, the author. >> on that happy note, when we figure out where uncle joe was brought up we'll take our first break. when we come b

vladimir putin which putin advertises all the time. he feels an enormous sense of resentment towards the west. i don't want to be his lawyer by any stretch of the imagination. >> you write so clearly on that part of this story. >> this guy is an autocrat and he has shut down dissent and i don't want to speak from a point of moral equivalence but it's important to understand what his motivations are in terms of diplomacy, in terms of his military moves. why did he take crimea? why did he take crimea? a lot of it was aimed at the west as well as the situation in ukraine. ukraine was the bridge too far for him. the idea that the west would establish a diplomatic and economic bridge head in a country that putin doesn't even consider a country, he considers it part of the russian heritage. that was a bridge too far. >> stalin was from crimea. >> he was from georgia. >> was he from georgia? somebody was from crimea. oh, the author. >> on that happy note, when we figure out where uncle joe was brought up we'll take our first break. when we co

the kind of new language on putin, a president who to be fair has bent over backwards to give vladimir putin benefit of the doubt in virtually every public utterance i can remember on the subject. >> clearly engaging the russians to include mr. putin in an effort to try and reduce a threat to western europe to u.s. national interests is the correct thing to do. but let me also add, this is not all electronic warfare and covert action and little green men. putin has rebuilt fairly high technology forces and is using them actively against -- the ukraine is self-propelled artillery, ground-to-air missiles as we saw shooting down the dutch airliner. these are active threats to the baltic republics, the poles, they are scared. not just of being on the internet and attacked, but russian military power. so, again, i see the russians as an active national security threat as a major threat to nato which has disarmed itself. the germans came apart. they had 12 divisions, a powerful conventional army in the center of europe. but it's mostly gone. so putin punching way above his weight class is actually

the kind of new language on putin, a president who to be fair has bent over backwards to give vladimir putinthe benefit of the doubt in virtually every public utterance i can remember on the subject. >> clearlyngaging the russians to include mr. putin in an effort to try and reduce a threat to western europe to u.s. national interests is the correct thing to do. but let me also add, this is not all electronic warfare and covert action and little green men. putin has rebuilt fairly high technology forces and is using them actively against -- the ukraine is self-propelled artillery, ground-to-air missiles as we saw shooting down the dutch airliner. these are active threats to the baltic republics, the poles, they are scared. not just of being on the internet and attacked, but russian military power. so, again, i see the russians as an active national security threat as a major threat to nato which has disarmed itself. the germans came apart. they had 12 divisions, a powerful conventional army in the center of europe. but it's mostly gone. so putin punching way above his weight class is actuall

marine le pen is invited to the kremlin by vladimir putin. and we have a look at a new robot barman. hello and welcome. president donald trump has suffered a major defeat over one of his biggest campaign pledges. his vow to reform america's health—care system and repeal of other careful to donald trump was facing opposition notjust other careful to donald trump was facing opposition not just from democrats, but from his own party congress. the president had issued an ultimatum to republicans saying that he would drop it altogether if they did not back in. but he was forced to abandon his plans after being told that he can we did not have enough support. from washington, john serpell filed this report. —— jon sopel. mr vice president, do you have the vote? a day of truly frantic meetings and phone calls, as the vice president, mike pence, went to the hilt to try to secure the votes needed to pass health care reform — trumpcare. and the usual tools deployed, a mixture of menace and flattery. but it wasn't going well. my vote is still a no. my v

he's the only human being vladimir putin has allowed to hold any meaningful title in that country for years. medvedev started off as putin's chief of staff 14 years ago and putin has kept him basically as his adjunct in office ever since and now look at this. this is the video, right, by the opposition guy, alexei navalny, that is the video he posted today. but what this is, this is alexei navalny and his anti-corruption group flying drones with cameras on them over what they say are all of dimitry medvedev's secret properties. again, like vladimir putin, dimitry medvedev is not supposed to be rich. he's never worked outside -- look at this house. he has never worked outside of government jobs. he just gets a government salary. but here is the opposition guy, the guy who wants to run against putin, the guy they keep locking up, the guy they keep convicting on trumped up charges whose friend and co-leader of the opposition was murdered in the street outside the kremlin, here's alexei navalny, not just being a putin opponent, here's alexei navalny breaking whole new ground, literally fl

the head sear gay gorkov was appointed by vladimir putin. all the infrastructure around the sochi 2014 olympics the bank supported. sergey gorkov the chairman, graduate from the the intelligence academy from the federal security service the fsb in 1994 then went into banking before being head of this state bank here in russia. >> drip, drip, drip on the russia connections every day. >> indeed. helping us break it all down political analyst, author of trump's american column. to christine's point it is a lot more drip, smoke, fire what's the heart of the problem here? >> let's agree on this mr. gorkov and kushner were not discussing the -- it would be very difficult for the russian bank to finance a kushner family real estate deal. but one of the great hopes of vladimir putin and business oligarchs in russia is that the trump administration would remove those sanctions, so if you can get together with the son-in-law and advisor and range that you have a lot of progress. >> veb says it was part of a road show. >> potential business. >> when th

and the tarantula in my view is vladimir putin. who is entrapping many people to do his bidding and to engage with him. >> tucker: at [laughs] at [laughs] never mind don't actually catch their prey in a web. the number one super villain and almost certainly our next adversary on the battlefield. texas got so worked up about this that he read the buzzfeed dos year like it was a real document. although the hearings, at which he declared, we were attacked by russia. thank you for joining us. we were attacked by russia. how do we respond? do you think we should use long-range or short-range icbms? >> we should expand the sanctions we have and continue to investigate what they did and today we learned from the fbi director contrary to what you said, there was new information that there are members of the trump team who are under terminal and counterintelligence investigations. >> tucker: i was aware of that that. hold on, i want to take what you say seriously. i absolutely do. you said we were attacked by russia. that is not a small thi

marine le pen meets vladimir putin at the kremlin.he russian president tells the far right leader that he has no intention of meddling in france's presidential election. and scandal-hit francois fillon accuses the media of leaks. ♪ >> we begin in london, where the investigation into the westminster attack continues. police say two more significant arrests have been made, bringing the total people in custody to nine. the attacker has been identified british-born muslim convert. he killed four people when he drove his car into crowds on westminster bridge before stabbing a police officer to death at parliament. he was eventually shot dead by police. >> two more arrest made adding to a series of raids made in the .ondon capital and birmingham at least say at total of 50 people were injured in this attack. two of those remain in critical condition, one with life-threatening injuries. police naming the attacker, the 52-year-old, somebody who was born in the southeast of england. molly: is there anything more you can tell us about the attac

and the tarantula in my view is vladimir putin. who is entrapping many people to do his bidding and to engage with him. >> tucker: at [laughs] at [laughs] never mind don't actually catch their prey in a web. the number one super villain and almost certainly our next adversary on the battlefield. texas got so worked up about this that he read the buzzfeed dos year like it was a real document. although the hearings, at which he declared, we were attacked by russia. thank you for joining us. we were attacked by russia. how do we respond? do you think we should use long-range or short-range icbms? >> we should expand the sanctions we have and continue to investigate what they did and today we learned from the fbi director contrary to what you said, there was new information that there are members of the trump team who are under terminal and counterintelligence investigations. >> tucker: i was aware of that that. hold on, i want to take what you say seriously. i absolutely do. you said we were attacked by russia. that is not a small thi

fry illegitimate election. >> hillary clinton at a private event in december in new york saying vladimir putin tried to influence the u.s. election because of his personal beef with her based on his time as secretary of state what she's talking thereabout is documented. during those anti-putin protests in russia, the one time he came closest to losing his grip on power in the 17 years he's been in power hillary clinton as secretary of state was out there reminding everybody who would listen that the election that just took place in russia were in her words neither free nor fair. >> post this past election in our country hillary clinton tried to explain to her support supporters why russia did. what she just explained was the same theory of the case as this guy, ex british mi-6 officer christopher steele who resurfaced in london after going into hiding for weeks after buzzfeed published his dossier in january. the dossier asserts that there was collusion and cooperation between the trump campaign and russian intelligence about the russian attack on the u.s. election. in that dossier, the explan

she meet vladimir putin in the kremlin.an you we meet the four—year—old twins who saved the life of their mother when they worked out how to open her phone to call emergency services. hello and welcome. president trump has suffered a major defeat over one of this biggest campaign pledges. this vow to reform the system of america and repeal obamacare. he was facing a position notjust from democrats, but from this own party. he had issued an ultimatum saying he would drop it altogether if they did not back him. he was forced to abandon this plan after being told he simply did not have enough support. mr vice president, do you have the vote? a day of truly frantic meetings and phone calls, as the vice president, mike pence, went to the hilt to try to secure the votes needed to pass health care reform — trumpcare. and the usual tools deployed, a mixture of menace and flattery. but it wasn't going well. my vote is still a no. my vote has not changed. if anybody tells you for certain they know what is going to happen, they are ly

the tarantula, in my view, is vladimir putin who is entrapping many people to do his bidding and engage with him. >> tucker: [laughs]] never mind that tarantulas don't catch their prey in a web. you get the point, putin is evil personified. congressman joaquin castro got so worked up that he read aloud from the buzzfeed dossier about trump like it was a real document. how close are we to war with putin? declaring "we were attacked by russia." the real questiona. is, how do e respond? let's get specific. dodo you think we should use long-range or short-range icbms >> we should use long-range sanctions on russia.on we should continue to investigate what they did that today we learned from the fbi director, contrary to what you said, there was new information. there are members of the trump team under investigation for their role in russian interference. >> tucker: i was aware of that and i think most of us were. i want to take what you say seriously. i do. i absolutely do. you said we were attacked by russia. that's not a small thing. an attack doesn't just invite a counterattack it deman

was not only a vladimir putin associate but it was a guy that putin was in the kbg with. donald trump miraclesly stumbled into that netted him $60 million for doing basically nothing. there is one american who is in the middle of that bank who is the single largest shareholder in that bank. and tonight, that american was just confirmed as our nation's new secretary of commerce. his name is wilbur ross. he's an american businessman, longtime friend of donald trump. not much experience in international banking, but ended up the majority shareholder in a s bank and a bank that ended up stuffing $60 million into donald trump's wallet. he never even board living in it and never even visited it. but trump, no questions asked. no connection whatsoever except through wilbur ross, donald trump's old, old friend. and there's basically two things to know about this story going forward, one in terms of explaining this presidency, the other one in terms of what happens next in our politics. you should know at the time this magical deal emerged out of nowhere that put million dollars o

vladimir putin accused america of interfering in its elections. sisters joy and jamie romano have been waiting five years to welcome two orphaned russian brothers home to atlanta. why do you think vladimir putin chose to entangle orphans in politics? rep. doug collins: because i think in many ways vladimir putin sees the west as an adversary. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ sharyl: welcome to "full measure." i'm sharyl attkisson. some consider it the most powerful investigative committee in congress. the house oversight and government reform committee. it has nearly unlimited purview to look into most any matter that has a tie to government. in the past, that's meant investigating everything from steroids in sports to the housing crisis. we recently spoke to the current republican chairman of the committee, jason chaffetz, the oversight man who's watchdogging presidency. there's no better way to understand the business of the house oversigh

under vladimir putin sidninstea nato has been defined as a great enemy. they made their own knockoff of nato, but at least there russia can be in charge. they love being seen as a competing military power to the united states, even though the russian military is in no way comparable to the american military owner when it comes to nuclear weapons. if your russia, you like being seen as a military paufrmt you don't have any issue with the united states and russia being seen as competing military powers. if you're russia, what you really hate about the united states, what you really hate about the u.s. government, if you want to find a specific bull's eye for it, it's the u.s. state department. the u.s. statement isn't military force. it's american leadership in the world. the u.s. state department organizes the world to support international organizations, to support the post-war stable world that america leads. the u.s. state department is in charge of soft power, supporting american-led interests around the world. it supports dissidence in russia and crit

we should be meeting with the dissenters and critics of vladimir putin and oligarches and the big business kleptocrats that surround him. instead, our government has aligned with putin himself work the insiders in russia. that's totally antithetical to the design of america. when you think about it. madam speaker, we have the great good fortune to go to work every day surrounded by portraits of people who built this country, like george washington who is right over there. we've got portraits of thomas jefferson, we've got portrait os frederick douglass, we've got portraits of abraham lincoln who actually served in this body, and when he was here, spent a lot of time railing about a war hat was concocted with lies by president jaymes polk, the mexican war. but lincoln knew how delicate and precious an precarious and enterprise democracy is. in the gettysburg address he posed this equestion how long the government of the people, by the people and for the people can last? will it perish from the earth? he put the question to the people because he said it's up to us. democracy is a rarity in h

when he defends vladimir putin and praises vladimir putin and attacks our allies, germany, the uk, he even attacked australia. i mean koala bears, kangaroos, and nicole kidman. i mean, what's not to like? you're really going to take vladimir putin over naomi watts? sorry. i'm not there. liz: but we've also got this diplomatic situation, rex tillerson is in turkey, and we have seen a development that's a little disturbing, and that is that the leader to turkey is now cozying up to vladimir putin more than he is with the united states, particularly when it comes to fighting isis. i think that that's a little disturbing because they're our nato partner. turkey is our nato partner. you know turkey well. so what happens there? >> well, turkey is a member of nato. it used to be a partner. i'm not convinced it's a very good partner these days. but president of turkey is sometimes too smart for his own good. what he's trying to do with putin right now is play us all so that he gets the best deal on all sides and ultimately he's made a lot of wrong calls. he is right now -- it's idiotic to cal

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obviously, vladimir putin did not want her to win.ut one could make the argument that this -- >> she had the reset button, right? >> right, of course, that famous reset button that wasn't even spelled correctly. so, it started off on the wrong foot from the get go. one could make the argument that this is what happens in diplomacy. the other side, the russians in this case, were just trying to get a sense of what donald trump and his campaign and his team would look like. but the rhetoric throughout this campaign that came from the president-elect and now president trump, by the things that he said about vladimir putin and the things that he's avoided saying, as richard just said in that wonderful piece that he -- that great scoop he had with that dissident, kara-murza, he's lucky to be alive. we just recently had the an verse of a two-year death of nemtsov. he met with u.s. officials hoping to lift sctions as well. so, when we have the president say, we kill people, too, or we're morally equivalent, that raises eyebrows more than any

that would be a signal to vladimir putin. while we're on the subject, you may have noticed that russia has again violated the 1987 inf treaty which limits intermediate range nuclear missiles. there's only one country in the world that's bound by this treaty. russia is bound by this treaty, but they don't pay any attention to it. there's only one country that can't build intermediate range nuclear missiles and that's it. president trump should say to vladimir putin that you bring russia back into compliance with the inf treaty or we're gonna get out of that one too. then the final point, the final point is protecting american sovereignty against the pressures of global governance. we see this in many, many fields and the question of gun control and environmental issues, in right to life issues, people are constantly trying to make decisions for us and just like the citizens of britain voted to leave the european union this past yjune, we have to fight fo american sovereignty. here is the principal that the trump administration

working with vladimir putin. kennedy: that has to do with rand palms objection to a bill that would advance mont the onef mont --. the country of montenggro. >> this is a strong case for term limits. i think he's a bit unhinged. buck, i'll start with you. there is acrimony. we can get into the personality issues. rand paul makes a good points. we don't need every unstable country in nato. >> there is hello surf errand paul, then you want to send us to bolivia? in terms of montenegro, yeah. but they sent a handful of them. look at this from the perspective of not only is it it anncreasin our defense obligation. there is a messaging issue, we are adding a country into nato and the nato countries need to pay for for their defense. they have an obligation to pay more. but when this becomes an issue, it's how russia views this. this much great sensitivity as there was with kosovo to the u.s. and picking off and pulling into the alliance from the russian perspective. they view this as an aggression. to say someone is d

he will not stand up to vladimir putin so the russians get away with this, and again, putin has no reverseear. potential for this getting out of hand for accident and incident is very, very high but the most important issue is we must stand up. liz: you know the kgb, you know how they used to operate. vladimir putin was at the kgb as we know. let us go to this attorney general jeff sessions situation. he has recused himself. that is enough for some republicans. not all. they would like an investigation. the democrats you expect them to pile on, they hate it. but you need to tell us is this a tempest in a teapot or when you have general flynn and jared kushner, the son-in-law meeting with the russians, not so much that they did, everyone keeps forgetting to say when they did when specifically asked. you tell this out of proportion? >> no. even if there's the slightest, lease plausible chance of russian influence on the administration, it's as grave as can you come on national security short of war. so we have to take it seriously, and liz, it's not political. it can't be political. the demo

the russian president, vladimir putin, has met the french far—right presidential hopeful marine le pen the french election next month, but says he reserves the right to communicate with all political forces. the immediate arrests are rover. seven people caught in that first sweep have now been released. that leaves just four people in custody, who detectives are concentrating on as potential accomplices. i am told more arrests are possible. now the ha rd more arrests are possible. now the hard miles of the investigation begins, as detect yourself to sift through the evidence and try to work out whether khalid masood was working alone. i understand they simply do not know the answer to that question at this stage. as ever, with modern terrorism investigations, they will have to sift through a mountain of computer evidence and mobile phone evidence, including, intriguingly, the fact that the litmus sued's mobile phone sent a message to the encrypted messaging app whatsapp just two minutes before crossing that bridge. if that is true, the question is, who did he send that message to? dete

the russian president, vladimir putin, has met the french far—right presidential hopeful marine le pence the french election next month, but says he reserves the right to communicate with all political forces. ms le pen said that if elected she would do what she could to get eu sanctions against russia lifted. greg dawson reports. this was a rabid symbolic show of his bitterly from vladimir putin. —— rare but symbolic show of friendship. translation: we do not wa nt to friendship. translation: we do not want to influence events wish to retain the right to speak to all political power was. the kremlin likes what it hears from marine le pen. she has called for eu sanctions imposed on russia to be scrapped. she claims the crimea, the ukrainian peninsula annexed by moscow has a lwa ys peninsula annexed by moscow has always been russian. translation: you know my position is unknown. i rarely change them which probably makes me an exception. you know that iam for makes me an exception. you know that i am for development of relations with russia in the context of a long history buildings our

vladimir putin in terms of nato and ukrainian sovereignty. tronger than the leaders of the free world? i believe in realism and pragmatism. you say in ukraine... you're going to lose in this case. ..putin has thousands of russian troops on ukrainian soil. right. that's what you say. you say that russia is pulling the strings behind the so—called secessionist self—governing regions in the east of your country. that's what you say. and do you then really think that nato is going to embrace into membership a country which is riven by that dispute and where moscow, according to you, has troops on its soil? i see that ukrainian military is the only military that deterred russian troops, and this is the fact. i see that ukrainian military is quite strong. and i see that ukrainian people managed to survive and we still have the country and we still have the nation, and i don't care what president putin wants. well, you may not care what president putin wants but the fact is if you look at this conflict from the outside, the man who has the clear stra

our real enemy is vladimir putin . it is about time we take this seriously. i have been here 42 years and i have never seen such a threat on our democracy as what we are seeing from vladimir putin. and the administration doesn't call it for what it is. we deserve to know the fat and a full investigation. jeff sessions should recuse himself. that he wouldr recuse himself on anything he should recuse himself on. he said he would recuse himself whenever it is appropriate. response ludicrous from the attorney general. recusal is not optional here, it is required. in order to maintain a semblance of integrity in this investigation. the attorney general have to recuse himself. it is a rule in the republican and my craddick administration. the investigation have to be led by someone who is impartial and removed from politics. not somebody in the trenches of a political campaign and the subject of investigation. it doesn't describe someone who misled congress. he has been implicated in the investigation. it is not a close call. we know that russia is doing everything

in addition to vladimir putin flying personally to guatemala city to make the pitch in three languages, putin also flew to guatemala city an ice rink. russia literally flew a whole freaking functioning ice rink from moscow to guatemala in july to impress the international olympic committee. the ice rink, they set it up in guatemala city, that's where they mounted their official presentation, that's where they made the case they should get the winter olympics at their russian ice rink that they purpose built in guatemala for that occasion. that is how russia got the sochi olympics for 2014 which we now know ended up being yet another way that putin found to make his friends spectacularly rich. that was also the winter olympics where russian athletes did better than they ever had before at a winter olympics. and that, of course, is how we ended up with the russian olympic doping scandal. so all in all it worked out great. but the company vladimir putin used to seal the deal in guatemala city, the company that putin used to show off what russia could do, to fly this freaking ice rink from

russia's president vladimir putin boarded a deliberate campaign russia's president vladimir putin ordrered deliberate campaign carefully constructed to undermine our election. and blast off for spacex. making history, sending a used rocket back into space. live from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. glad you could joining us at 8am here in singapore, it is 1am in london and 9am in seoul, where a court has approved an arrest warrant for the country's ousted president on corruption charges. miss park was removed from office when the constitutional court endorsed the decision to impeach her. steve evans has what is next. well, she enjoys, if that is the right word, that prison cell, and she probably faces trial on very serious allegations, so the prospect is that prison cell for the foreseeable future. maybe if she's found guilty eventually some months on for some years. you're absolutely right, rico, it is a very rude awakening. three weeks ago she was in the presidential palace. she has had a rough night. the decision of the court was at 3am in the m

americans are very curious about vladimir putin. how would you describe him? >> if you ask me what is mr. putin, well, he's the president of the russian federation, he came to power in a country that was about to collapse, to lose its territorial and political integrity. there was a country with a huge foreign debt, a country that couldn't afford paying off that foreign debt and it was involved with paris club and other debt holders and a man who managed in a decade using his management skills, using his personal talents, using positive international and economic environment to make russia stable again, to make russia being a country with ingreasing level of standards of living, is more prosperous, more united, developing quite fast and playing more and more serious role in global affairs so this is mr. putin. >> is that why he's so popular? what do you attribute the popularity he has in russia? >> he's different from lots of statesmen and politicians that we see in the world and that we see in russia. first of all, he's not a populist-oriented politician so he

by all appearances, vladimir putin is in complete control of what donald trump actually says about him. >> putin is a nicer person than i am. >> well, he certainly has better manners than donald trump. who doesn't? donald trump, whose most the reason violation of his oath of office was to accuse president obama of a crime, has never accused or even publicly suspected vladimir putin of committing a crime. how much influence does vladimir putin have over donald trump? if the answer is none, then so be it. let's move on. to one of the many other trump scandals. if vladimir putin does have some influence over donald trump, how did he get it? is the never to be released tax forms which will soon be in the custody of the irs, actually appointed by donald trump. congressman jason chaffetz who could never get enough of investigating hillary clinton has no curiosity at all at the center of the putin relationship. no curiosity about the nature of the trump campaigns. he doesn't want to know answers to, what did president trump know about that communication and when did he know it? there is hope

it's because vladimir putin is an autocrat. he's a dictator. they are trying to destabilize democracies all over the world. they are continuing to do it right now in france with the national front which they are trying to propel to power. it's taking place in germany. we can have vladimir putin dictated the political destiny of people all over the world simply because he has a lot of clever cyber hackers and people who know how to inject fake news and propaganda. we need to get back to the habit of telling the truth in america. democracy depends on the truth. madison said popular government depends on popular information. if you don't have it its prologue to a farce or a tragedy or both. people who need to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives, and so we need to get to the truth of this which is why we have been calling for a 911 style commission to deal with it because we have a lot of serious problems we need to work on. i'd love to talk about what we can do in terms of healthcare and education, and th