absolutely. it s important to say that just so we put context, we did reach out to the russian authorities, we reached out to the kremlin, to the embassy here in washington, also to russian poli police and we didn t get a response. if you do i don t want to be in the room with you when it comes in but i d love to hear about it afterwards. thank you, richard, appreciate it. i should mention one of the moments that stuck with me from this interview as i watched the whole thing, richard at one point asked vladimir kara-murza as he s recering from this assassination attempt, what appears to be an assassination attempt, he asked if he had a message for president trump and vladimir kara-murza said the only thing we ask of our colleagues and political leaders in western democracies including the united states is that they don t help mr. putin. we ll be right back. a heart attack doesn t care what you eat
we re told the senior fsb officer is charged with treason and that s connected to russian government secrets leaking to western intelligence. but if you want to know more about that, can t help you. we haven t heard hide nor hair of that guy since his initial arrest. we are not used to russian-style politics in our country. we have never run their operating system on our hardware before but this is dangerous stuff, this is the dagger in cloak and dagger, right? and little pieces of the story are unspooling everyday. the national security adviser is gone and the son-in-law and senior adviser to the president also met with the russians and didn t tell anybody about it and the attorney general is recused but facing pressure to resign over his contacts with the russians and the russian connected campaign manager who mysteriously dropped out of the campaign before the final swing of the election is turning out to be a can of worms that has barely been opened and this unspools more. and it s
if you do i don t want to be in the room with you when it comes in but i d love to hear about it afterwards. thank you, richard, appreciate it. i should mention one of the moments that stuck with me from this interview as i watched the whole thing, richard at one point asked vladimir kara-murza as he s recovering from this assassination attempt, what appears to be an assassination attempt, he asked if he had a message for president trump and vladimir kara-murza said the only thing we ask of our colleagues and political leaders in western democracies including the united states is that they don t help mr. putin. we ll be right back. concord, north carolina, did you know,
that wealth has been stolen and/or extorted and/or kicked back to him over his 17 years in office running an increasingly autocratic russian government. technically, yes, there s a russian parliament but it s like a vestigial organ. it s basically the adenoid of the russian government. it s the tonsil. technically there s also a court system in russia but you know what? that s putin, too. just ask the small town judge who cooked up the timber futures embezzlement charge against alexei navalny, putin s presidential opponent for next year s election. also technically there s a form of democracy in russia. they have elections. but ask boris nemtsov bleeding in the street outside the kremlin. ask other opposition leaders who have turned up dead or in prison or had their political parties declared illegal. over all the years that putin has been in office, increasingly year after year with a tighter and tighter grip the russian government has been reduced and
given what has happened in the past, given what has happened in alexei navalny s lifetime as a public figure. what has happened to putin s critics, to putin s opponents, to critical independent journalists, to anybody who has gotten in putin s way, certainly to anybody who has tried to tell his secrets. think about the bravery that takes. this week here at home, the u.s. attorney general recused himself from investigations involving contact between the russian government and the trump campaign. he had to recuse himself after he admitted to not disclosing information about his own contacts with the russian government while he was part of the trump campaign. this follows the resignation of the national security adviser for also not disclosing his contacts with the russian government during the transition and during the campaign before that. and i want to make a point here about bravery and risk. do you remember how it is that we found out about michael flynn s conrsations with the