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Of whether or not you can trust your government and echos back to the 2009, remember the bonuses for the banks that were being given out and it just -- it looks glacial thousands of these people owe these irs employees owed back taxes. they found some of them had been disciplined for internally under reporting their income. >> how do we -- seize the bonuses to try to satisfy some of the back taxes. >> under the heading of what does it take to get fired in the federal government, i will read you from "the washington post story. the irs contract with the national treasury employee's union bars t...

Ukraine is a real government. there are people who believe it's a huge generation that believes russia, belarus and ukraine are really all one country and they have been artificially split in the post soviet era. i don't want to get crazy here. >> they can't get over it. they can't get over the breakup is what you're saying. >> it's not the breakup. they don't feel this way about kazakhst kazakhstan, they feel this way by belarus, united by language, religion, culture. >> thank you so much. we appreciate your time. we'll check back with you a little later on. thanks so much. president obama ...

That was released to the russian media. the video of his arrest and the elaborate perp walk the fsb made him do. they filmed the arrest, filmed him handcuffed still sporting the wig and the hat, filmed him being escorted by two men into the backseat of a car, and filmed him going into the back of a building no longer wearing the wig but carrying it in hand, and waiting to be questioned by the fsb. the fsb is what the kgb used to be. at one point at a table, they lay out and show us all the spy gear they allegedly caught him with. here's the thing. this was the long, oddly transfixing video we ...

Crowds saw the soviet-era retired military jet go down and erupt into flames. no one on the ground was hurt. now back to "lockup." prisons usually aren't associated with churches. but over the years on "lockup," we filmed almost every type of religion there is. and yet, still, on a standard cell search, we found out behind bars, few things are sacred. >> even though they have their bible or koran, whatever religious preference they are, they'll still hide dope in it, and weapons in it. you'll find razor blades and dope stuffed in the bindings. everybody finds god in prison. if you're looking...

Vladimir putin's ruling party. thousands gathered over the weekend calling for putin to step down. he's currently seeking a third term as president. saturday's demonstration was the largest anti-government protest in russia's post soviet era. and david, you take a look at this in the "new yorker." obviously this story is percolating. where is this going? >> you know, it's amazing to me. it's amazing to me to see vladimir putin after eight years as president and then another four as prime minister and almost even now with the situation pretty automatically becoming president again in march. the...