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Main source of news is television. if it didn't happen on television, it didn't happen. >> reporter: putin controls television. >> there is absolutely no critical words about vladimir putin on the russian air waves. none, not one word. >> reporter: putin controls everything in russia. >> putin has an untrammepled authority. i don't see any checks on his power. >> he is able to make singular, rapid decisions. the absolute is in there. it's unlike anything i have seen in russia. >> reporter: all that power is propped up by an astonishing approval rating, 80%, and that's according to american pol...

>> reporter: 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. >> reporter: putin controls television. >> there's absolutely no critical words about vladimir putin on the russian airwaves none, not one word. >> reporter: 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 seen in russia. >> reporter: all that power is pro...

7th, head of the director of national intelligence, the secretary of home land security said only russia's senior most officials could have authorized these actiflvities. does that mean putin ? >> it does mean putin . the president was asked during the press conference, he said look, it's hard to imagine that you had people in russia, in the russian government, in the kremlin who were freelancing when it came to interfering in the democratic affairs of the united states. that would be i think unthinkable in the russian hierarchy in a system where putin controls everything. basically when you'r...