00:00The number of million-million teams is waiting for success.
00:07Can a leader be too perfect?
00:12He's a super hero.
00:14He's some kind of superman for us.
00:18Can his flawless intellect and unmatched strength make him somehow more than a man?
00:23Russia! Russia!
00:27At what point does a mortal ruler become a living god?
00:34Will I be sitting here till I'm 100 years old?
00:39This is the daily showography of Vladimir Putin, democracy's super czar.
00:48Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin grew up with everything a Soviet child could ever want.
00:54Communal housing. And that's it.
00:57We lived in a small room, all three of us, in a communal apartment in Leningrad, with no private facilities.
01:04We didn't even have our own bath or shower.
01:07It was all the fun of a college dorm, but with way more drinking.
01:11From birth, greatness was in his blood.
01:15His father was a party member, and his grandfather was a cook for Joseph Stalin,
01:20giving Vladimir access to all the flavors of Soviet Russia, from bland to cold to gray.
01:27It was a movie that set Putin on his life's path.
01:30The shield and the sword about a dashing Soviet spy inspired him to join the KGB.
01:36He'd be the Russian James Bond.
01:39Meaning the guy trying to kill James Bond.
01:42By 1985, Putin was a lieutenant colonel in the KGB, stationed in glamorous East Germany.
01:49But in 1989, tragedy struck.
01:52A crowd of Germans, driven mad by the decadent Western influences of Coca-Cola and blue jeans, descended upon the Berlin Wall.
02:02They smashed it to bits, and then, looking for more souvenirs they could later sell to history nerds,
02:08they gathered around Putin's station.
02:15The Berlin Wall might have fallen, but a great man does not crumble so easily.
02:21Putin ran to the basement and set all the KGB's documents on fire.
02:26Then, he went outside and told the crowd they would be shot if they didn't leave.
02:31What an honor for those Germans to be there for the future leader's first death threat.
02:37Through his heroic actions that day, Putin survived.
02:42But sadly, the Soviet Union did not.
02:45When I say that the fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century,
02:51I'm talking about a humanitarian catastrophe above all.
02:54After the dissolution of the USSR, 25 million Russians suddenly found themselves in a foreign country.
03:00That's right. Millions of Russians had to order whole new address labels.
03:05Was the downfall of communism really worth that?
03:09But Russia and Putin persevered.
03:12Under the steady leadership of the incredibly competent Boris Yeltsin,
03:16Putin rose through the political ranks, eventually becoming prime minister.
03:21The Russian public wanted to know, who was this young and objectively perfect man?
03:27To answer that, Putin commissioned a documentary about his life.
03:32Just like Beyonce.
03:35And Putin's film was even cooler.
03:38He commissioned this rarely seen documentary about himself.
03:43Presenting Vladimir Putin, the credits read, in power.
03:50Weirdly, the soundtrack is from the Broadway show Cats.
03:57It was without question the second most disturbing movie ever to feature songs from Cats.
04:03In 1999, Boris Yeltsin abruptly resigned from the presidency to spend more time with his drinking problem.
04:15And Putin became the second elected and first permanent president of Russia.
04:20He proved himself not just a formidable head of state, but a man of many talents.
04:29A beast master.
04:33An adventurer.
04:37A sportsman.
04:38And a born entertainer.
04:51Vladimir Putin is truly a quadruple threat.
04:55Quintuple if one of the threats is making actual threats.
04:58But most of all, President Putin is a protector of Russia's fragile democracy.
05:03A role he takes so seriously that every election he does whatever is necessary to stop inferior candidates from winning.
05:17For this devotion, his citizens have rewarded him with the presidency again and again by literally unbelievable margins.
05:25Vladimir Putin will lead Russia for another six years.
05:29He cruised to an expected victory in yesterday's presidential election, winning nearly 77% of the vote.
05:36Check this brazen ballot stuffing caught on camera.
05:39In these videos verified by the AP, voters seem to insert multiple ballots.
05:44One election official appears to stroll over to a box, stuff it, while no one in the room seems to mind.
05:51Yes, Putin respects people's right to vote so much that he lets them vote two, three or 78 times in the same election.
06:01It wasn't all smooth sailing though.
06:03One time, Putin briefly had to let a friend be president for him until he could run again.
06:08And then he had to make a tiny change to the constitution so he could run again again and again.
06:15As Russia has thrived, so has the man who embodies it.
06:19For his steadfast commitment to fighting corruption, Russian oligarchs and energy executives have gifted Putin with tens of billions of dollars.
06:27My personal suspicion is that certainly Mr. Putin is the richest man in Europe, possibly on the planet.
06:33Money, money!
06:35And that money would come in handy when unexpected expenses cropped up, like secretly buying a luxury apartment in Monaco for a totally random woman.
06:44And yes, one media outlet claimed that the woman was Putin's mistress, but that's ridiculous.
06:50Putin was happily married at the time.
06:53And also, that media outlet has since been outlawed.
06:56Besides, these rumors are completely unfair to the woman's daughter, whose unknown father must be very proud of her and her face that looks absolutely nothing like Vladimir Putin.
07:08Of course, even a perfect country has some malcontents.
07:11But whenever those seeking to undermine Putin's streak of uncorrupt democracy begin to circle him like bloodthirsty sharks, somehow, someway, fate always intervenes on his behalf.
07:25There seems, for some reason, to be an extremely high mortality rate among independent journalists and political opponents of Mr. Putin.
07:33President Putin dismissed accusations that the Russian state was behind the attack on Mr. Navalny.
07:39If our agents had wanted to kill him, he said, they'd have finished the job.
07:44Is Russia behind the poisoning of Sergei Skubarov?
07:47Look, we're busy here with agriculture.
07:51And you ask me about some tragedies.
07:53Get to the bottom of things there first.
07:55Then we'll talk about this.
07:57Yeah.
07:58Why doesn't anyone ever ask Putin about his agriculture programs, like these new bananas he's working on that grow with the poison already inside them?
08:07Sure, it's true that some of Putin's critics met untimely ends.
08:11But on the other hand, let's move on.
08:14We should be talking about agriculture.
08:17Naturally, a true champion of democracy doesn't just want it for his own country.
08:23He wants it for all people.
08:25Which is why Putin began tirelessly assisting with elections around the world, sending his digital democracy helpers to gently nudge voters in the right direction.
08:35Putin was so amazing at democracy that in 2016, even the world's so-called greatest democracy was asking for his help.
08:44Russia, if you're listening.
08:46And like the great man he is, Putin answered the call.
08:51Tonight, Russian President Vladimir Putin trolling the United States, joking about meddling in the presidential election and saying he'll do it again.
09:00I'll tell you a secret.
09:03Yes, of course we'll do it.
09:06To finally make you happier.
09:08Just don't tell anyone.
09:09You know what they say.
09:12It takes a big man to joke about himself.
09:15And an even bigger, scarier man to joke about destroying your country.
09:24That's why in all the world there is no bigger man than Vladimir Putin.
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