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And the consulate in st. petersburg and, you know, we thrives on this idea that he is seen as somebody who is a strong leader, who will stand you to the west and yes. i do believe that although there are a lot of people in russia that despise him, there are far more who think he is the right guy for the job. >> let me ask you, matthew, again if looking at these polls -- there are two more i want to esshow you and get your response. there are numbers of people who regret the collapse of the soviet union, and putin said this was the greatest disaster of the 20th century. look at the number of ru...

To which we are complicit in putin's power. he showed how he took money out of the russian state, he and people around him. he laundered it abroad, and brought it back into russia and brought property, and that's how they engineered the rise to power and western banks, western tax havens, western havens and lawyers and shell companies, all kinds of people particularly in london and also in new york, miami and paris helped them all along the way, and this is why they have so much disdain for the west because they know -- they think of us as it's corrupt, you know, we can buy them. we can buy th...

Spy but traded in a spy swap for people who were based in the united states, and in other words by doing so, russia broke all kinds of unstated rules, you know? you don't attack spies who have been traded and pardoned. the use of a military grade chemical weapon in the middle of a crowded city center of a small city, all kinds of assumptions that we make about how civilized countries behave inside one another's borders were broken, and the message had to have been one of disdain for london. we don't believe you're going to do anything to us. we are above the old deals and arrangements and we d...

And for decades, the kgb was trying to reshape european and american politics, but now these methods have been updated for the age of facebook and twitter and social media, and what we're seeing is an astonishing ability to microtarget people, and to push people to the extremes to try to polarize the conversation and what putin has been doing is instead of trying to instrumentalize social divisions in europe and america and elsewhere, it's for their own advantage. it's scary, and our democracy is in a more precarious and perilous state than at any other time in the 21st century. >> bill browde...

That's more speed than at&t's comparable bundle, for less. call today. our quarrel is with putin's kremlin and his decision, and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the uk, on the streets of europe for the first time since the second world war. >> that was the british foreign secretary boris johnson on friday pointing the finger for the poisoning of an ex-double agent and his daughter on british soil. earlier in the week, the british prime minister may told parliament she was ordering the expulsion of 23 russian dipl...