senator himself. among them anti-putin activist vlad who sad down with me exclusively to talk about his role in tomorrow s service and how he and the senator bonded. martha: tell me a little bit about the origins of your friendship with senator mccain. we first met, the three of us the russian opposition leader senator mccain and myself at the beginning of 2010 and n. that building just behind us in the russell senate building where senator mccain s office was and this was about the legislation bill introduced in the u.s. astronaut and senator mccain was one of the main driving forces behind that bill. what that bill proposed to do was to impose individual personal targeted sanctions not against russia as a country but against corrupt officials and human rights abusers in vladimir putin s regime. impunity whereby the same people who have for years been attacking and undermining and violating the most basic norms of