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this is a mysterious and even frightening case this morning that former Russian spy and his daughter remain in critical condition at an English hospital after being struck down Sunday by what authorities now believe was some kind of poison Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have been implicated in numerous cases of poisoning over the past 20 years for Putin it's a way to send a message to others if you spy against Russia it will cost you your [Music] life the Russians are Masters in the art of handling poison and have turned it into a strategic [Music] weapon in each case just a few grams of poison Fel a tug of war between the west and Russia what we've seen over over the last two decades is Putin doing these kind of dark acts internationally waiting for a response from Paris from Washington from Berlin struggles for influence territorial Wars battles over finances and energy Vladimir Putin will never never let me go he'll never forget me because what I've done is unforgivable in his mind each poisoning case is a move in a game of chess being played since the Cold War and sheds light on developments since the conflict with Ukraine began I'll never forget the members of my staff who were involved with Russia kept kept coming in and telling me don't trust it do not trust the Russians by the end of the 2000s former CB agent Vladimir Putin had successfully established his own rules he handles problems his way with zero tolerance for criticism a master of diversion he is an ally in the war on terrorism his duplicity works the West lets its guard down no Western leader foresees the return of a cold war at least for the time being dissenting voices like that of William bradder go unheard I had to figure out how to get Justice for Sergey he was killed not for religious reasons or ideological reasons he was killed for $230 million and the people who stole that $230 million don't keep it in Russia because as easily as they stole it it could be stolen from them they keep it in the west and when I went to Washington in the spring of 2010 I thought it would be pretty easy to convince people that something should be done in a case like this and what I discovered was that when President Obama came into power he had created something called the Russian reset I wanted to present you with a little gift which represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is we want to reset our relationship Let's do let's do it together so we will do it together okay we worked hard to get the right Russian word do you think we got it you get it wrong I got it wrong it should be peraga and this says perusa which means overcharged well we won't let you do that to us I I promise okay thank you very much thank you so much he was really keen on signing a nuclear weapons agreement because he had been awarded the Nobel Prize um so right before he was president for declaring that he wanted nuclear weapons to be eliminated I am committed to upholding this treaty it is a centerpiece of my foreign policy and I'm working with president medv to reduce America and Russia's nuclear stock BS we can do that that's the hope of all the world and so it created a real problem for us because Human Rights was one of the things he was ready to trade for for his nuclear weapons agreement Barack Obama's America buries its head in the sand it is not ready to sanction Russia but all of that will change when the country uncovers a decade of deception Russian agents are operating on its soil under false identities I'm Leon Panetta I've had a long experience with dealing with Russia when I was uh both CIA director and Secretary of Defense uh I work with both the intelligence officials in Russia as well as uh their defense ministers uh in dealing with the defense issues The Hope was that ultimately we could develop a better relationship with Russia and I tried to do that when I was the director of the CIA and I'll never forget that the members of my staff who were involved with Russia kept kept coming in and telling me don't trust them do not trust the Russians and when I heard about the uh spies that were located in this country uh I knew they were right the FBI had determined that the Russians had deployed 10 individuals into the United States they had used an approach that I think goes back to the KGB where you place an individual in a country and that person assumes a different identity becomes part of a community establishes credibility within that Community they were married they had children their children were in local schools they were members of community organizations some were teachers uh they had really done a very good job of developing a very effective cover we had tapes of them being paid by Russian individuals a lot of them came out of the embassy uh or consulates that the Russians had their primary mission was to ultimately be able to get into a key agency and Department in Washington their best Hope was to be able to become part of the CIA or become part of the FBI or become part of the state department or even perhaps get a job in the White House they were here for one purpose and one purpose only which was to get Intelligence on what the United States was up to the biggest challenge was that one of the individuals that was a spy was planning on returning to Russia and we were worried that if that happened it might under mind the whole effort to try to be able to catch all 10 of them so uh we went to the White House this was taking place at a time when President Obama and president mbev uh who was head of Russia were planning a summit uh to basically talk about uh important issues between the United States and Russia the concern that was raised was that it could prove embarrassing both to mve as well as uh to the president and so the decision was that we would allow President Obama and mvv to meet and that as soon as mvv got into his plane and left United States airspace that we would then arrest all 10 spies 10 Russian Intelligence Officers have been arrested allegedly for spying on the US Barack Obama has no desire for a new Cold War he stubbornly pursues his research [Music] strategy to force his hand William bradder needs allies in the US Congress he approaches the Helsinki commission which is responsible for security and cooperation in Europe the banker convinces a small group of officials and congressmen to work on drafting the magnit act the Kremlin soon becomes aggravated by this Alliance and puts the group on its most wanted list I like to call Putin's 11 because there were 11 of us American officials or or or former officials wanted by Russia for being part of a transnational criminal group The Common Thread was some association with the magnitsky effort in the United States my name is Kyle Parker from 2006 to 2014 I was was the advisor analyst for Russia at the US Helsinki commission I first met Bill Browder in 2000 early 2009 since the mid 90s Bill Browder was a famous name on the Russian scene and it was certainly memorable when the largest foreign investor was expelled from the country as a national security threat at he said well let me tell you a story and that was the first time that he had told the story of his lawyer Serge magnitsky in essentially in the US Congress it's a dynamite story and I then spent the next couple months trying to dig dirt on the story to sort of exposing any any gaps in in the facts or the logic and I talked to whoever I could talk to and anybody who I thought might be able to give me some comprom some dirt on Bill Browder and in the end the story checked out and not only did it check out what I heard from a lot of the people I spoke to and and especially our own my own government was that it's actually worse than he's telling you we are in the hearing room of the house Foreign Affairs committee a room of History um that has changed the course of the relationship between the United States and Russia and between the west and Russia in terms of saying to Vladimir Putin we will not accept your kind of behavior with impunity will never be able to bring Sergey back but if through his death his story can save the lives of others in similar situation then his enormous sacrifice will least not have been in vain God bless Sergey magnitsky it was shocking for members of Congress hearing that testimony of the Russian treatment of a Critic who dared to highlight corruption and there was very little sympathy for Russia left here in the United States Congress after that dramatic set of hearings and testimony and enormous desire to respond Vladimir keram morza joins William Browder in his struggle at their side is Boris nmof one of Vladimir Putin's fiercest opponents [Applause] after so many years of being brushed aside with batons the two hope the magnin ACT will be a chance to strike back for uh con PU [Music] there's a code in the military that you never leave anybody behind and that applies in intelligence as well Russia had arrested a number of spies that were working both for the United States and Great Britain who were in Russia in Russian prisons and we thought it made sense that if we could trade these 10 potential spies for those who had spied on behalf of the United States and Great Britain that we could work out a fair trade I arranged a phone call with rad kof uh the head of uh the Russian intelligence I said I need to tell you something that we have just arrested 10 spies who are yours Russian spies there was silence on the other side and then bradof came off and said yes they are ours I just said you know we would like to be able to to set up this kind of trade and it was at that point that he said uh let let me check this out uh I have to talk to Putin for his permission it was the next day that he called and said that Putin had approved the exchange our plane with the 10 Russian spies and their families landed in Vienna at the same time that a Russian plane carrying our spies landed at the same airport the Russian spies were delivered to the Russian plane and our spies were delivered to the uh to our plane one of them uh returned to Great Britain and as is the case uh the Russians never forgive those who spy against their country uh and an operation was conducted by the Russians that wound up poisoning one of these spies Vladimir Putin is ready to take risks that either Soviet leadership would not have been able uh or willing to take that is more dangerous than the Cold War I'm Mark Urban I'm a journalist and I had uh got quite interested in the idea of writing a book about espionage in the modern sense and and really the idea that things had become uh quite intense and difficult again between Russia and Western countries in that context sisal was was really good because uh he was somebody whose personal story was of having been an intelligence officer for the Soviet then Russian State having been turned by British intelligence to work for them caught in a labor camp and then exchanged so his story was a fascinating story so I decided to try and find him which wasn't that difficult because he was on the Electoral list that's the voter list in Southern England in the city of Salsbury which is where he'd settled after the exchange none of us suspected that he was about to be poisoned a few months later scripal was a Russian intelligence officer who worked for their Military Intelligence organization which is known as the guu the gru was an unreformed organization that still regarded Russia as being in a state of near war with Western countries it was a time when rald Reagan was effectively rearming America the Americans were sending cruise missiles to Sicily that's what the Russians really wanted to know about they wanted to try and recruit Americans who were working in Sicily on the cruise missile deployment and serus scripal was one of those guys who was going to be working in embassies trying to recruit [Music] spies one thing was very clear talking to Sergey which was that while we as westerners regarded the the coming of Boris yelen and the democratic government in Russia in the early 90s in a very positive way he and his colleagues in the in the guu did not Sergey became very disillusioned with what was going on he could see chaos everywhere the Soviet Union breaking up trouble in many parts of Russia he didn't feel any personal loyalty he also felt great financial need as many Intelligence Officers did in Russia at the time the salary had been reduced vastly by inflation this kind of disillusionment that Sergey had with with the new authorities in Russia took him by a series of steps to the point where he was ready to betray the guu and the Russian state he was able to give MI6 British intelligence service much more information about the attitude of the Russian military under Putin the operations they were mounting there were questions about the security of Russian nuclear weapons there were questions about chemical weapons biological weapons and when Serge scrippal produced his own uh organogram or organizational structure of the Gru with all of the names written in of all of the offices who headed the different directorates and directions and departments and sections of this uh labyrinthine organization it caused absolute astonishment that MI6 headquarters they hadn't had anybody uh in a position like that who was willing to remain in the guu and provide information for decades a high-ranking mole Sergey scrippal kept the British inform formed throughout Vladimir Putin's first term in office caught off guard the former FSB boss launches a hunt in Russian secret Services lingo the word for this is smash death to spies when they started to get information from their own intelligence sources about actual real spies in the gru who had been recruited by Western intelligence organizations the f SB uh really put enormous resources into trying to work out uh who it was and that's what led them to start to do surveillance on Sergey scripal they followed him to a meeting uh with British Intelligence Officers in Turkey when he got back they decided uh near the end of 2004 to arrest him and he was sentenced to a long sentence in a labor camp what was known as a penal colony in uh part of central Russia called movia which had a long and terrible history of being a place where dissidents and people from the show Trials of the 1930s were sent after 5 years of imprisonment in Russia Sergey scrippal is summoned by the director of the penal colony he is free in a bid to retrieve his top operatives detained in the west Vladimir Putin has agreed to release the old traiter now one of the things that had to happen was that he had to receive a presidential pardon so he had to sign various papers that effectively involve confessing the crime because you can't be pardoned unless you actually agreed that you did something wrong Sergey was taken to the fort which is the MI6 training base on the south coast of England he arrived there by helicopter then he spent weeks uh being debriefed talking to MI6 officers about everything that had happened to him uh what had happened in his interrogations what he had or hadn't admitted to all those kinds of [Music] things and then after a few weeks of that he was effectively free he was in a in a little house in in Salsbury in Wiltshire trying to live a normal life and it was agreed that his wife and kids should be able to join him MI6 believed that uh the fact that Sergey had been pardoned in 2010 as part of his release by the Russian president meant that that that the Russians taking their sort of legalistic and rather formal attitude to these things had effectively forgiven him and wouldn't come after him but obviously they were wrong as Moscow plots its revenge opponents Vladimir caram morza and Boris nimv increased their visits to Washington together with William Browder the magnin trio hopes to secure the largest vote possible to create bulletproof legislation to do this they must convince both Republicans and Democrats of the need to sanction Russia I got a list of all the Republicans and I looked down the list and there was one name that jumped right out of that list for me he was the most powerful Republican in the Senate and that was Senator John McCain of Arizona John McCain had been tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp in the same way as Sergey was tortured in Russian Prison from that moment on Senator McCain became my biggest in Washington what is even more tragic is that the case of Mr magnitz is only one of the most extreme examples of the broad and dramatic deterioration of rule of law in Russia and its replacement with arbitrary and nearly uncheck rule state power which is increasingly concentrated in the hands of one man President Vladimir Putin we had to work very careful in you know I like to think of it you know find a dance partner and so we built the co-sponsorship out in twos so that in both Chambers who tell me Russia can do better got the Democratic senator and they urge us to move forward with the Minit accountability act we need to find a republican partner we and Congress are united in our support for those fighting for democracy and human rights in Russia we found a Republican senator let's find another Democratic partner today is the third anniversary of the death of Sergey magnitz in whose honor title for this bill is named so that on November 16th the outside world the Obama Administration the press the Russian government were watching an effort that always had bipartisan support that never could be dismissed as a partisan attack are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or to to change their vote the A's are 92 the Nays are four the bill is passed the majority leader never expected the magnitsky ACT to pass to get a US law passed is is like uh I mean less likely than winning the lottery it's the first time in 35 years that that the United States had a sanctions law against Russia so I was stunned um but so was Vladimir Putin I do remember U how extremely agitated uh the Russians were both here in Washington and in Moscow uh to the idea of the mnisi ACT let alone its adoption they reacted in a very hostile manner to that typical Russian denial that anything like this happened and in fact magnitsky was not only not a victim he was actually a perpetrator he was corrupt himself and deserved all he got and that uh we had no business interfering in what they construed as The Sovereign Internal Affairs of Russia we actually provided 282 names to the US government only about 50 of them have been sanctioned and so there's still more work to be done and what it means is that um particularly being sanctioned by the United States is that you can't open a bank account anywhere in the world because no Western institution wants to be in violation of US Treasury sanctions if you apply for a Visa in any V into any place you really want to travel to the Visa officers is going to type in your name and see wow this person's on a human rights sanctions list they're not going to give you a Visa so you're you're pretty much confined to Russia and can find and and if you have money offshore you can't get access to it and so it kind of ruins their lives not not in the way I'd like to ruin their lives I'd like them to go to jail that's a proper consequence for torture and murder but it's better than than nothing which is what what was available to us before [Music] spe e [Music] for mag this bill is called the dimma yakovl law named for a little Russian Boy A adopted in the United States who died after being left in the family car parked in the hot sun in reality the fate of Russian children is of little concern to the Duma the law was drafted and passed as a matter of urgency a few days after the US Congress passed the magnitsky ACT dozens of American families hoping to adopt a child from Russia are devastated tonight seems like just really an offense on the children and it's using it's really using kids as a pawn in a political system we would love for the Russian government to reconsider after going after the um American families who adopting they went after me and Russia has been chasing me around the world issuing Interpol arrest warrants eight warrants for my arrests through Interpol trying to bring me back to Russia so they can kill me just like they killed ser magnitsky I've either found out about it in advance or I've been able to thwart it before I got into trouble um and so uh I've been lucky each [Music] time for Vladimir Putin the name of the game is escalation he starts a territorial war in Ukraine in 2014 sending an unmarked Army of Mer mercenaries and soldiers to Annex Crimea and then attacking the dbus region to prevent what he claims is the genocide of the Russian speaking population the Russian opposition Springs into action it's obvious to Boris NS of the peace and security of the European continent are in jeopardy for [Music] for [Music] Poli [Music] spe [Music] for we're not asking for your support it is our task to change Russia and we will do it ourselves the only thing we ask from you is that you stop supporting Mr Putin by treating him as a respectable and worthy partner on the world stage and above all by and please stop falling for the lie that Russians are someh [Music] Fe bu beat for for for organis us uh uh uh the poisonings of ladimir korza do not make headlines despite his military incursions into Crimea and the danas Vladimir Putin isn't considered a priia Russia is excluded from the G8 but remains a member of the G20 the kremlin's master is a member who is is not only welcome but sought after economy overrides politics and the West is mired in its compromises yet No One Is Safe not even those who thought they had been overlooked I was in the office um on the 5th of March 2018 and there had been a story very briefly in the news about an incident being declared at Salsbury hospital that morning this is a mysterious and even frightening case this morning that former Russian spy and his daughter remain in critical condition and authorities now believe was some kind of poison I thought oh my God this is incredible um I mean I hadn't spoken to Sergey for a few months before that happened it didn't take that long for some people at the hospital to start suspecting that it might be a form of nerve agent or Organo phosphate type po poison you saw sections of the Town being closed you saw the fire brigade going in to decontaminate uh people in Hazmat and really what happened was big parts of the cental ssy was shut down these scenes were completely unprecedented and then like a day or two later narrowing it down and saying well it's got a very particular signature of one of these uh nerve agents uh developed by Russia in the '90s novichok the whole thing grew as it became clear that serving members of the gru were suspected of coming to this country and were on CCTV they hadn't hidden their identities and that was like a signature a signature to the poisoning this is the Russian state the British government had no real option but to take a strong public stance against Russia for this thank you order statement the Prime [Music] Minister it is now clear that Mr scrippal and his daughter were Poisoned With a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so Russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergey and Julia [Music] [Applause] scrippal Sergey scrippal and his daughter survive Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats the US France and Germany are content to send back four each nothing more Vladimir Putin is able to Revel in the spectacle of Western dithering to meet Donald Trump face to face on the new American president's European tour Putin was very coldblooded in his approach to International Affairs he knew what Russia's interest were and he intended to advance them his meeting with Trump was potentially therefore very dangerous for the United States because Trump didn't understand what he was facing I'm John Bolton and I was the National Security advisor to president Trump but started in April 2018 and uh this particular trip was for three summits one with Nato one with the prime minister of the United Kingdom Teresa may at the time and and then with Putin so this was a very very heavy agenda on a relatively short trip when Trump met with prime minister May the main meeting was at the checkers the British prime ministers country State the situation we thought had stabilized it hadn't really gone away for the British they were still quite agitated about it it was not a meeting that was intended to produce an agreement on anything specific it was really so that Trump would have the benefit of British views last before the upcoming meeting with Putin in Helsinki I asked Teresa may about the scal attempted assassination and I asked if she would give her view why the Russians had done it I did that for a particular reason I wanted Trump to hear from May uh that the Russians were capable of carrying out assassination on the territory of a foreign government the the British clearly thought that this was a Russian effort to see if they could carry out an assassination attempt uh extricate the uh the people trying to conduct the murder and then Escape any consequences for it today we've also discussed how we can deepen our work together to respond to malign State activity terrorism and serious crime in particular on Russia I thanked president Trump for his support in responding to the appalling use of a nerve agent in Salsbury after which he expelled 60 Russian Intelligence Officers we agreed that it is important to engage Russia from a position of strength and unity and that we should continue to deter and counter all efforts to undermine our democracies they were determined in London that the Russians were going to suffer consequences for it uh and they felt that it was important that the West as a whole remain solidly behind uh the the condemnation that they had expressed about what Russia had done but for Trump he thought okay we've expelled the diplomats that's BAS basically the end of it president of the Russian Federation [Applause] vladim [Applause] at the end of the 2010s Vladimir Putin remains in control from the dbas region to Salsbury the warning lights Flash the war is already here at the gates of Europe which refuses to see it to name it to consider it the question is no longer whether the poison will strike but who it will strike [Music] [Music] Al [Music] I [Music]