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>> rick: vladimir putin extending his power in russia for another six years. he celebrated at a victory rally in red square. he appeared to win the presidential election in dramatic fashion with 74% of the vote, despite reports of ballot box stuffing and forced voting. amy kellogg is live in moscow with more on this. amy. >> reporter: theyre still counting and now they say its up to 76%, which was significantly more, rick, than his team had hoped for and significantly more than the 63% he got in...

Wednesday and tomorrow in orlando the first of what is expected to be many lawsuits will be filed by one of the survivors who was injured. >> rick: not surprising. phil, thanks very much. its election day in russia and the countrys headed to another six years under president putin. what it means for moscows relationship with the west which appear toss be growing more tense by the day. >> we should all remember, this is a formality, this election. its more like a rubber stamp coronation. its not ...

>> rick: we could be one step closer to a historic meeting between president trump and north koreas kim jong un. a senior north korean diplomat heading to finland today for talks with the u.s. and south korea. president trump agreed to meet with kim by this may. north korea has yet to comment on the matter. the big question, what does north korea hope to gain from the meeting? as preparations play out, south koreas foreign minister insisted they made it clear there would be no reward for dialogu...

Meanwhile, bob corker saying he believes president trump will do away with the iran nuclear deal, making good on a promise not to extend waivers on economic sanctions during the next deadline in may. >> right now it doesnt feel like its going to be extended. i think the president likely will move away from it unless my european counterparts really come together on a framework and it doesnt feel to me that they are. now as we get within two weeks of the may 12th date, that could change. >> do you...

Cracks. if cruz were committed, getting a gun would have likely been far more difficult. hes charged in the deaths of 17 students and staff on valentines day last month in parkland. to another tragedy in florida. police in miami releasing the names of the victims killed in the bridge collapse and their loved ones are speaking out saying this never should have happened. phil keithing is live in miami. investigators have not said what caused this yet but i saw a report that an engineer saw cracks ...

Conversations of. he says, quote, spent very little time with andrew mccabe but he never took notes when he was with me. i dont believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. same with lying james comey. can we call them fake memos? lets bring in ted williams, criminal defense attorney, former homicide detective. thanks for being with us. >> hi, rick. >> you believe that mccabes firing was justified? >> well, when you look at it, what we have here, rick, is a mess...

Testing the waters on firing mueller. dick di durbin says that would e going too far. >> if the president reaches out and stops this investigation, that is a constitutional crisis in this country. thats been said by democrats and republicans alike and what it means is, it would be incumbent on congress on a bipartisan basis to use the tools in its disposal. there are two bills before the senate judiciary committee which has been absent without leave on this issue, two bills before the committee,...

Miles stanish, white house columnist for the hill. thank you for being here. first of all, were hearing 76% of the t vote. how seriously do we take this landslide win? is he really that popular? >> i dont think we take the 76% number at face value. there are reported irregularitieses in the election, as your correspondent and you have mentioned, about ballot box stuffing. those issues are separate from the fact that vladimir putin is legitimately popular in russia. one of the complications for t...

On the situation. >> rick: i think another part about -- >> i think another part is the companies think theyre above the rules that apply to everybody else. so well learn more about this in the days to come. im disturbed by that. >> we need to find out what we can about the misappropriation of the privacy, the private information of tens of millions of americans. that mis misaprobeapproac inforn manipulate american voters. >> facebook said they launched internal and external reviews. >> chris: w...

There. >> rick: weve also heard that putin went to great lengths to prevent his most worthy opponent from running. so does that call this victory into question in any way? >> it does. i mean, his opponent was the most serious critic of putin based on distance. he was barred from running for what most consider spurious charges. he would have provided the most serious platform for dissent and opposition. if youre clearing the field of your most credible opponents, thats a pretty sinister sign. >> ...