Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140418:11:37:00
Loyal man. and what was the evidence? that putin's patron in st. petersburg, a man who had been mayor of st. petersburg, was indicted on criminal corruption charges. and putin threw some out of russia, saved him. for yeltsin, that was it. >> he is basically one of the most extraordinary rises from sort of obscure technocrat to the leader of the russian federation in the course of a couple years. that one could possibly imagine. then in a short basically year and a half time period, he went from running the fsb to being tapped by one of the wealthy oligarchs and his allies to become yeltsin's s...