a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down. police weren t going to help, and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the fur furnace. he finds himself in the basement with a furnace shoveling documents as we hears demonstrations down on the street. they are burning the files as fast as the furnace is blowing up. putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and so credits as the crowd closed in. with the fire stil
december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dredden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladamir putin s life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden, they found a target. a local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down. police weren t going to help, and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the buil
comet, food and more. finally, i will take you inside the mind of vladimir putin. it s a preview of my latest special. first, here s my take. the biden administration deserves huge credit for the economic measure that s it s been able to take against russia for its invasion of ukraine. they are the most comprehensive imposed against a major power since the second world war. on a punishment scale, they rank them at least an eight out of ten. but the unprecedented nature are producing concerns around the world that the united states has weaponized its financial power and could lead over time to the decline of the dollars dominance, which is what givens america its financial superpowers in the first place. let me tell you about three reports from three good sources that i trust. one comes to me from new delhi, reporting on a conversation that took place in the highest levels of independent yaj s government. the topic how to make sure the u.s. can never do to india what
vladimir putin is not pleased. i ll talk to the former british prime minister tony blair about this big move and much else. then i ll talk to ian bremmer and minton beddoes about the world s other crises, covid, comet, food and more. finally, i will take you inside the mind of vladimir putin. it s a preview of my latest special. first, here s my take. the biden administration deserves huge credit for the economic measure that s it s been able to take against russia for its invasion of ukraine. they are the most comprehensive imposed against a major power since the second world war. on a punishment scale, they rank them at least an eight out of ten. but the unprecedented nature are producing concerns around the world that the united states has weaponized its financial power and could lead over time to the decline of the dollars dominance, which is what givens america its financial superpowers in the first place. let me tell you about three reports from three good sour
neighborhood. two federal law enforcement sources say investigators are reviewing a 180-page manifesto allegedly written by the teen. in it, the author describes himself as a fascist, a white supremacist and antisemite who picked upmost of these beliefs from the internet, including his f fi fi fixition that whites are being replaced. he sprayed gunfire at the entry of the store while live streaming the attack. the family members of those killed has been notified. the store security guard lost his life in trying to stop the gunman. tomorrow, flags on new york s state buildings will be lowered to half staff. victor blackwell is on the scene in buffalo. just a heartbreaking tragedy, victor. i can t imagine the emotions that you re encountering there on the scene. reporter: yeah, jim, when i was walking up here to this scene earlier today, i met an elderly woman. she was one of three coming to the scene. she said that she came here just to support this community, the people who