The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Putin's Pants-on-Fire claim about $400 million donation to Clinton from Bill Browder partners Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a novel idea to advance the Russia investigation during a joint news conference with President Donald Trump in Helsinki. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team could come to his country, Putin said, if Russian investigators were allowed to go the United States to dig into alleged tax evasion by American-born financier Bill Browder and his associates.