vladimir putin has navigated hard times well. vladimir putin had navigated hard times well. he had slashed social spending, implemented an austerity program. allowed the ruble to fall and the bank kept it in check. pint is a fiscal conservative. >> the outward seeming ethic of wealth looks closer to dubai 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. >> that's the kind of thing adolf hitler did in the 1930s. thought those days were gone. >> 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 ant

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people simply disappear on putin's inauguration day. ♪ ♪ >> vladimir putin! ♪ ♪ >> the event was perfectly produced for russian television. every detail flawlessly planned. almost every detail. a few russians did not follow the script. >> literally a block away from his inauguration was a cafe called jean jacques where the opposition liked to gather and drink coffee. and the riot police descend on the cafe. arresting people sitting at their tables outside, turning over tables, breaking cups and plates. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the crackdown was not shown on russian television. >> for 94% of russians, their main source of news is television. if it didn't happen on television, it didn't happen. >> putin controls television. >> there's absolutely no critical words about vladimir putin on the russian airwaves -- none, not one word. >> putin controls everything in russia. >> putin has an untrammeled authority. >> i don't see any checks on his power. >> he is able to make singular, rapid decisions. the absolutism there is unlike anything i've ever seen in russia. >> all

. >> vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace, shoveling documents, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. it was going so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets, as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went outside and faced the mob. by himself. there are armed guards inside, he told them. they will shoot you. and he's able to bluff his way out and tell the crowd, don't try it here. you're going to get hurt. >> putin's threat worked. the mob dispersed. >> this is the drama that stays with putin all the time. the fear of popular uprising. ♪ >> vladimir putin quelled that fear with absolute control. this is what control looks like. in one of the world's busiest cities, the streets are emptied for vladimir putin's motorcade. 12 million people simply disappear on putin's inauguration day. ♪ >> vladimir putin! ♪ >> the eve

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

i think i'd get along very well with vladimir putin. we were both on "60 minutes," we were stable mates, we did very well that night. if he says great things about me, i'm going to say great things about him. russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. she doesn't know if it's the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. it could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? putin, from everything i see, has no respect for this person. >> well, that's because he'd rather have a puppet as president. >> no puppet. no puppet. >> it's pretty clear -- >> you're the puppet. >> the trump election and the new administration is a gift for putin. >> putin is a killer. >> there are a lot of killers, a lot of killers, you think our country so innocent? >> did you direct michael flynn to discuss sanctions? >> i didn't direct him but i would have directed him. the whole russian thing, that's a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. how many t

vladimir putin is very smart. he 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 o

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 bank itself says yes, that meeting took place but say it was part of a road show the bank was conducting at the time, christine. >> interesting. thanks for that. >> so in what role was that meeting? >>> president trump firing up the old twitter account insisting the latest revelations about his son-in-law's meeting with the russians is a hoax and now dragging in the clintons, tweeting this. >> context here about all those things that the president is tweeting about. under hillary clinton the state department was one of nine agencies partying in a deal that allowed stakes in a uranium company with u.s. holdings to be sold to russia, at the time -- paid bill clinton for a speech and -- the claim of pay to play as m

i have no relationship with putin. >> but if you have a relationship with vladimir putin? >> i do have a relationship. and i can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today. >> i've never spoken to him. i don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. >> i with us in moscow a couple months ago. you know, i own the miss universe pageant. they treated me so great. putin even sent me a president. beautifupresent with a beautiful note. >> i got to know him very well. we were on "60 minutes." >> we did "60 minutes" together. by the way, not together, together. meaning he was probably shot in moscow and i was shot in new york. >> i spoke directly and indirectly with president putin who could not have been nicer. >> i don't know putin. i never met putin. this is not my best friend. >> just some of the questions and answers over the last few years. two weeks ago "the new york times" reported there are four people, trump associates who the fbi is closely examined over potential contacts with russian intelligence officials during the campaign seas

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

i have no relationship with putin. >> but if you have a relationship with vladimir putin? >> i do have a relationship. and i can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today. >> i've never spoken to him. i don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. >> i with us in moscow a couple months ago. you know, i own the miss universe pageant. they treated me so great. putin even sent me a president. beautiful present with a beautiful note. >> i got to know him very well. we were on "60 minutes." >> we did "60 minutes" together. by the way, not together, together. meaning he was probably shot in moscow and i was shot in new york. >> i spoke directly and indirectly with president putin who could not have been nicer. >> i don't know putin. i never met putin. this is not my best friend. >> just some of the questions and answers over the last few years. two weeks ago "the new york times" reported there are four people, trump associates who the fbi is closely examined over potential contacts with russian intelligence officials during the campaign se

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

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

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 flying drones over the walls and fences. look at this house. putin's prime minister's 45,000 square foot mountain chalet in sochi on the black sea. how do you afford that? and here they are flying drones with cameras attached and they've mapped it here over this gigantic country house in kursk which has its own manmade lake. here's themlying another drone over another one of these gigant country mansions reportedlyhis one a 30,000 square foot behemoth in the beautiful verdant moscow suburbs. this one a

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

are you convinced vladimir putin believed hillary clinton would lose? >> yes. >> tucker: not only is michael flynn clairvoyant but so is vladimir putin. >> i'm sorry, no. he thought donald trump was going to lose and he thought the desired outcome was to be -- to undermine hillary clinton. >> tucker: doesn't all of this undercut that theory? the o effect of this is to have badly undercut the administration of donald trump. >> if hillary clinton had won, i was to want to punish the russians for what they did. >> tucker: why would he behind it? thisis hurts drum. why would putin want to do it? >> he has a guy in there who wants to roll back sanctions. putin is celebrating. >> tucker: if trump attacked russia, he believes it's an act of war, what would you say? >> this isn't military versus nonmilitary. i would say ratchet up the sanctions. p isolate russia. in 2021, i don't want to be sitting here with you talking about another country that attacked. >> tucker: when trump declares war against russia, i'm going to bring youu on. president trump had a lot t

she meet vladimir putin in the kremlin. can 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, the

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. the 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 a

that would probably be vladimir putin. but he does hold the title for what is believed to be the most expensive divorce in modern history. as part of his divorce proceedings, a swiss bank award his wife $4.5 billion as her divorce settlement. wow. and a couple's divorce wuld usually be a private matter, why do we care, the reason it turns out we have to care about it is because it's becoming part of what we need to understand about your current american presidency. the split up started in 2007, 2008. the divorce settlement in the end wasn't finalized until 2015. but it was very, very lurid. it was in the papers all the time. it was international news. had all the tabloid aspects to it. she accused him of having orjies on his yacht with young girls. he had herard as a jewel thief at one point. shelgts she was entitled to a multi-billion dollar settlement in the divorce, and she accused him of hiding his money so she couldn't get access to it, specifically of quote secreting and transferring assets in order to avoid his obli

citizen closer to vladimir putin than any other. he received the order of friendship from vladimir putin personally, the highest civilian award that russia gives to non-russian citizens. somehow rex tillerson ended up as the u.s. secretary of state under donald trump who he'd never met. and under rex tillerson, the u.s. state department putin's greatest nemesis in the u.s. government, under rex tillerson, the u.s. state department has kind of disappeared. when the state department put out its annual human rights report like it does every year, criticizing russia like it does every year, this year there was no public rollout. the secretary of state didn't even announce it, they did no public events, why stress the issue. that is usually the highest high profile thing the u.s. state department does all year. this year they just press released it. don't say a word. the more we learn about the traump campaign and ties to the russian government, the more clear it gets that american investigations into that, they need to be aggressive and

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 over

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

obviously, vladimir putin did not want her to win. but 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 a

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knew anybody -- never heard of vladimir putin. it would make no difference because we should still view this as a radical threat to the political sovereignty of the american people. but the second answer is even more important. as all of my colleagues were pointing out before. every day we get more evidence, not just of contacts and kecks, but actual -- connections, but actual collaboration and cooperation between people in the trump campaign and the trump family and the trump universe, with vladimir putin and its closest agents and assets throughout russia around and -- and around the world. let's just recap a few of those. former national security advisor michael flynn was forced to resign. or i guess he was fired by president trump. after he failed to disclose the scope of his contacts with russians, including ambassador. he was paid more than $33,000 in 2015 by russian-funded propaganda media. and the full he can tent of his relationship to the russians is -- extent of his relationship to the russians is still being investigat

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 democrats and republicans have to grow up and investigate this soberly and rationally. liz: do you anticipate that the drip, drip of the leaks continues and what's at the end of the faucet? >> there are only two options going forward. if pres

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

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

the national front leader met vladimir putin in moscow. she said he was ‘not trying to influence events'. in about ten minutes on bbc news we'll have this week's edition of newswatch but first it's time for click.

vladimir putin in terms of nato and ukrainian sovereignty. so you believe that putin is stronger 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 outs

russia's president vladimir putin boarded a deliberate campaign russia's president vladimir putin ordrered a 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

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

appointments avale now. >>> so just who is vladimir putin? dimitry peskov, putin's spokesman and one of his closest advisers talked to me about the man he has known for two decades. 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

huntsman, vladimir putin may to some extent control. that's the question. how much of the trump the gov does vladimir putin control if any? 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 relation

is the company vladimir putin picked to fly the ice rink to guatemala. it was at the center of a great corruption story at the united nations. this year's russian u.n. mystery is, of course, about the russian ambassador to the u.n. dropping dead with no warning at the age of 64 last month followed by the u.s. state department putting out a strange statement insisting that no cause of death would be released for him because "ambassador churkin's diplomatic immunity survives his death." that's -- that's this year's russia-u.n. intrigue. before this, though, before the mysterious death of the ambassador, this year, before this intrigue, the big russia-u.n. intrigue before that was when a bunch of their senior diplomats got nailed in a huge bribery and corruption scheme. it was a bribery scheme involving that same company, that same air cargo company that flew the ice rink to guatemala for vladimir putin. a bunch of russian diplomats, including some of the most senior diplomats they had at the u.n. were caught and arrested in conjunction with this bribery sc

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

vladimir putin says that she represents a fast—growing element of european politics. russia may already be accused of meddling in the us elections to help donald trump when the white house but the kremlin denies those claims and insists it will not try and influence next month's election. recent opinion pulled in marine le pen neck and neck in the first round with the centrist candidate. this meeting delivered a not so subtle hint that russia would be happy to deal with the president le pen. stay with us on bbc news — still to come: we visit roma where the leaders of the european union nations gathered to celebrate the 60th birthday... with one exception. let there be no more war or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. so proud of both of you. with great regret the committee have decided that south africa be excluded from the 1970 competition. streaking across the sky, the white hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers in fiji. this is bbc news. i'm lebo diseko. the latest headlines: donald trump has withdrawn his healthcare bill, after it became clear he di