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I dont know. how did you get here? [ male announcer ] campbells chunky soup. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles youll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really? ingram has adopted three children. one from central america and two boys from russia. now president putin has signed a law that bans...

Department is trying, bill, to make some headway with this issue. i know a lot of people watching are thinking why do we care about russia? there are all of these kids in the united states. my work and -- is across the board. i started the initiative with russia, but we will move to domestic adoptions. >> good for you. >> places in africa are having problems. this will be a broader initiative than just this. but it is a really important issue to me personally and to these children. >> laura, we ...

Could fall in the hands of child predators or abusers, one family told this child they would take away her leg braces as punishment. and she was told more than once to dig her own grave in the familys back yard. >> she said go out and dig your own grave, i dont care if you die, nobody will find you, you were not here in the first place. >> joining me now is the investigative reporter for reuters who did the 18-month investigation that uncovered this. i want to say first off this is one of the be...

As you can imagine, the children could fall in the hands of child predators or abusers, one family told this child they would take away her leg braces as punishment. and she was told more than once to dig her own grave in the familys back yard. >> she said go out and dig your own grave, i dont care if you die, nobody will find you, you were not here in the first place. >> joining me now is the investigative reporter for reuters who did the 18-month investigation that uncovered this. i want to sa...

Snub his nose at the united states, how can the united states put pressure to make something happen here? >> the secretary of state is actually trying to negotiate this. my criticism of president obama is he meets with president putin and at least he should bring it up. the fact that there are 300 families where the parents have actually met the russian child and this adoption has been stopped in the middle, to me, that rises to a human rights violation. countries have a right to prohibit adopti...

Relationship with the kremlin? >> ill tell you there are growing number of problems with our relationship with russia. president putin has been such a disappointment on so many fronts from the violation of human rights, trial, and the adoption issue which, of course, is what i brought a resolution before international parliamentary assembly about. >> can i ask you about that? >> sure. >> a lot of people who talk about this the people in the middle it, its heartbreaking. a ban on adoptions and le...

A former federal prosecutor who has worked on extradition cases. mark, this is amazing. we have all these issues outstanding with russia right now. syria, and russian adoptions. now. this we think he is still in russia but we really dont know, do we? >> we dont know. i will tell you this the best made extradition plans can go awry. i have extradited hundreds of people from colombia. this process can be laden with paperwork. it can be jammed up for years. in a case like, this you would think that...

We said, dont do that and russia has apparently said no. >> why would we assume it isnt in play? >> because the reports say no, were not giving him back to you. >> thats what they say publicly. we all know what they say publicly and behind the scenes to apiece thepease their base ie same. >> they said we wont let them go? >> they wont? >> they said, no. >> we dont have control over everything putin does. >> i know. thats the problem. >> why should we? russia has some legitimate issues with the u...

About it now. what impact do you think it could have, based on what you see there in coverage on the already cool relationship between russia and the u.s. right now? >> reporter: well, the relations has been in downward spiral since vladimir putin became president again, with syria, with banning of adoptions from american citizens. it is another sort of aspect. can be no sign of progress in relation between the two in the near future. >> very interesting. this is the first time really we heard p...

Across him in the street doing this. they were watching him for awhile. the interesting thing is it is always the timing. why did they choose to play this card now? you have to look at where is the benefit for the russians? the russians were starting to take a little heat because it was clear that they had completely screwed us over. the only way we were going to prevent boston is if they had come clean and shared the little bit of information they filed this big and that was the only way this w...