Tonight on the readout.

His behavior when there was an attempt on his life, you know, I was impressed.

He is a courageous person.

A person shows their true color in these emergencies.

And this is precisely one of those cases. And I think he acquitted

himself admirably. Putin, knowing that flattery will get you everywhere with Trump, was quick

to pivot to publicly humiliating the president-elect to show him and us who's the boss.

Also tonight the truth about what went wrong for Democrats. Spoiler alert, it wasn't the

fault of black men, indigenous Americans or Latino voters. Plus, the gathering storm.

Trump prepares to let loose his most ruthless allies to carry out a mass

deportation that one particularly sadistic Fox host said will be hysterical to watch.

But we begin tonight with the ongoing saga of a Russian oligarch that relates to our own politics

right here in the USA. In June of 2009, in an event broadcast live on Russian state television,

Vladimir Putin, then the Russian prime minister, walked into a factory in the town of Picayovo

and humiliated his country's richest man inside a metals factory

whose workers had been blocking the nearby roads to protest the lack of work in the closing

aluminum factories of Putin's faltering economy. With the cameras rolling, Russia's autocrat-in-chief

accused Oleg Deripaska and two other wealthy Russian businessmen of selfishness and greed.

He even likened them to cockroaches.

According to Reuters, Putin threatened to confiscate their property unless they signed an agreement to supply new raw materials to the local factories to get the people working again.

Demanding to know, quote,

why was everyone running around like cockroaches before my arrival?

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