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so we will continue our work to the extent that we can. all right. vladimir car amur za, thank you very much. thankou. we finally learn the fate of two major players in the bridgegate scand today. bill baroni, former ally of governor chris christie of the port authority along with bridget kelly, the former deputy chief of staff, were both handed prison sentences today. kelly receiving 18 months. baroni, two years. now, governor christie was conveniently not in new jersey today for the sentencing. he was at the white house, and we ll tell you why right after this break. we ve got that thing! you know.diarrhea? abdominal pain? but we said we d be there. woap, who makes the decisions around here? it s me. don t think i ll make it. stomach again.send! if you re living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea and abdominal pain, you may have irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea or ibs-d - a condition that can be really frustrating. talk to your doctor about viberzi.
vladimir knew there was no no moral equivalence before the united states and russia. i repeat there is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and kgb colonel and the united states of america. senator john mccain took the floor of the u.s. senate a little more than a month ago soon after learning that russian political activist vladimir cara mur za, who joins me in a moment, had been poisoned a second time. mccain clearly took issue with president trump making an apparent moral equivalency. just days ago, tens of thousands of russian citizens, many of them high school and college students, turned out for anti-government rally as cross russia. just hours ago, our next guest testified before the senate, once against about human rights abuses under the putin regime. more than 1,500 people were arrested this past weekend, and there are no indications that the authorities may be prepared criminal charges against some of the participants.
many other opponents are in prison. many have been driven into exile. i m a human being. of course it s disconcerting to say the least. at the same time, i believe that what we do is important, and i think frankly, you know, if we care about our country, which we do very much, we have to do what we can to make sure that it has a better future and that its citizens and especially its young generation, those people who we saw coming out in the tens of thousands to the streets of russia that past weekend have a future and have prospects and have a future in a democratic russia based on rule of law. so we will continue our work to the extent that we can. all right. vladimir car amur za, thank you very much. thank you. we finally learn the fate of two major players in the bridgegate scandal today. bill baroni, former ally of governor chris christie of the port authority along with bridget kelly, the former deputy chief of staff, were both handed prison sentences today. kelly receiving
that the position may have been taken here that if somebody wants immunity, we don t want to talk to them. no honest investigator would ever say that. interesting. all right. david cay johnston, thanks for joining me tonight. thank you. coming up, remember the time president trump objected to the suggestion that vladimir putin is a killer. will i get along with him? i have no idea. he s a killer, though. putin s a killer. we got a lot of killers. what, you think our country is so innocent? up next, the political activist who was on his death bed just a month ago after being poisoned for a second time in vladimir putin s russia. vladimir cara mur za testified in the senate about standing up to authoritarian rule and he joins me exclusively after this break.