putin will answer question as the bout the public in a live q & a session. the 13th time people will be allowed to submit their questions and concerned. last year, mr. putin spoke for nour hours. the kremlin will sift through more than 1.7 million e-mails. video messages and. to decide who gets to ask what? now, while anger grows across the u.s., police shootings involving victims. the city of chicago is trying to make amend. agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a black teenager shot and killed last year. he was shot 16 times. police say he threatened a man with a knife and tried off to break into cars. the sitty is refusing to release dash-cam video of the shooting. now, american news media outlets including cnn seem to be putting a spotlight on police users. it s not clear whether that
russians. no doubt crowing inside the kremlin over another of his famous kq&a sessions broadcast throughout the country taking shots at america saying the u.s. he s in vassals not allies and the evening full of defiance and patriotism that have become putin s trademarks. a introduction worthy of a super bowl half time show. a dramatic highly choreographed four-hour live television event with a studio audience mon raters multiple cameras piped in to putin unplugged. a q&a session, making a bold assertion. translator: will are no russian troops in ukraine. reporter: a comment u.s. officials pead immediately rejected. the questions and those who asked were hand-perked, even some about the murder of russian opposition leader boris. translator: any chance of finding out who ordered this horrible death?
call it late night with vladimir putin or just the putin show vad tv russian president vladimir putin fielding questions from citizens in his annual televised q&a session, direct public access to the president but critics say it puts the mock in democracy. the carefully vetted questions serving as a vehicle for putin s message. last year s session ran three hours 55 minutes, last year s record breaking 4 hours 45 minutes. nearly 2.5 million questions submitted this year. what were the themes and was there anything interesting? a lot of interesting stuff, yes. he crammed it all into four hours as well which was pretty good by vladimir putin s standards. much of the questions about the economy, the russian economy in free fall ticked up a little bit in the last few weeks.
death in a home in kiev. the senior official says kolashnakov knew about the movement that supported the president, saying it may have been the motive for alleged murder. the government opened a criminal investigation. in less than two hours, russian president vladamir putin will answer questions from the public in a highly anticipated live q & a session. senior international correspondent matthew chance joins us now from moscow. and, matthew, of course, we know that last year he spoke for some four hours, or so. can we expect the same length of time? what sort of questions is he likely to answer? and the process of how they are seashe actually go through some of the questions? there is no time limit put on this event. basically up to vladamir putin how long he feels comfortable speaking. last year, he spoke for 3:56.
includes the second amendment. dr. carson getting a warm reception, as will sarah palin and bobby jindal. presidential candidate and moderate republican jeb bush may have a tougher town. brie ala keilar is covering cpac for us. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. this is the big annual conservative revival yesterday, and it s also window shopping for these conservative activists. that s why it s so important that all these potential republican presidential candidates come here and wow this crowd. the thing that s going to be different this year that we re paying so much attention to they re not just coming here and giving speeches they also have to do a q&a session. this is a better indication of where their political chops are and how they re doing. yes, this is a group that s more conservative more libertarian than the gop party as a whole. they will be watching today as we have chris christie ted cruz will take the stage also scott