officials to undermine the prose but before that the president signed the mag nitsy act and this bans the visas of human rights abusers and dictators in russia and worldwide. putin is no fan of this law. the biggest thorn in his side. many around him are eager to see this repealed. i m joined by bill brewer, hermitage capital management. the man behind the magnitsky act. bill, i had ian brimmer on the show a little earlier who made the point that while donald trump uses this for deflection, he has a point that the obama administration was not as aggressive with russia as it could have or should have been which is a point you make very, very clearly in your book red notice. yeah. well, ian is right. and i would agree with him that getting obama to get tough on putin and on russia was like pulling teeth. it took they defied us at