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Wen we sat down with navalny, he told us he was on an airplane on august 20 when he began to feel strange, and then very, very sick. Alexey navalny i said to the flight attendant, and i kind of shocked him with my statement, well, i was poisoned and im going to die. And i immediately lay down on onto his feet. Stahl Alexey Navalny was on a flight to moscow from siberia where he had been campaigning against putins party in a local election, when he collapsed with no pain, but knowing he was dying. Alexey navalny actually, every cell of your body just are telling you that, body, we are done. Stahl one of the other passengers turned on his phone and captured navalny moaning in anguish. The pilot made an Emergency Landing in omsk, where medics, thinking navalny must be a drug addict, administered the usual treatment for an overdose and rushed him to a local hospital, where they said he wasnt poisoned but wouldnt let him leave for days. Alexey navalny well, it was a big fight. They thought that after 48 hours, this poison would be untraceable. And they just keep me there until this 48 hours will be gone. Stahl navalny is under constant surveillance. His wife yulia says government agents were at the hospital, controlling access to her husband, and she believes calling the shots. At the time, navalny was in a coma, unaware that his wife yulia was waging a Public Campaign to encourage western diplomatic pressure. And did you write a letter to putin . Yulia navalny yeah, i did it. Stahl dear mr. Putin, free my husband. Yulia navalny i wrote, like, i insist that he should do it. Stahl i demand you free my husband. Yulia navalny yeah. Alexey navalny it was an Online Campaign let him out and putin thought it would be safe for him just let me out after the 48 hours. Stahl so after 48 hours, the russian government allowed him to be flown by air ambulance to a hospital in berlin known for its experience with victims of poison attacks. And i gather they suspected poison right away . Alexey navalny yes, of course. Stahl meanwhile, his team in siberia searched his hotel room, collecting things navalny may have touched, like this water bottle, which the doctors in berlin sent along with a blood sample to a German Military lab to see exactly what the poison was. And, the answer was novichok. Alexey navalny they discover novichok, this nerve agent, in my blood, inside of body, on my body and on this bottle from the hotel. So, thats why we now we know that i was poisoned in the hotel. Because i well, its again, its just pure speculation, because no one knows what what what happened, exactly. But i think that when i was maybe put some clothes with these with this poison on me, i touch it with the hand, and then i sip from the bottle. So this nerve agent was not inside of a bottle, but on the bottle. Stahl novichok is a highly toxic nerve agent said to be ten times more potent than sarin gas. Labs in france and sweden corroborated the finding theres no doubt it was militarygrade novichok. Alexey navalny its maybe, its the most toxic agent invented by the humans. So its new type of novichok, which proves that, unfortunately, putin have developing new program of these chemical weapon, which is forbidden. Stahl the russians have said that they destroyed all these chemical weapons. Alexey navalny thats why, actually, they deny everything. Because it means that they still have this novichok. So it means theyre not just violating with keeping it. They are continue to improve it. Stahl and theres no doubt that russia is the only place where that could have come from . Alexey navalny this is absolutely correct. Stahl its a banned substance. Alexey navalny its a banned substance. I think for putin why hes using this chemical weapon to do do both, kill me and, you know, terrify others. Its something really scary, where the people just drop dead without there are no gun. There are no shots. And in a couple of hours, you youll be dead, and without any traces on your body. Its something terrifying. And putin is enjoying it. Stahl you have said you think that mr. Putins responsible. Alexey navalny i dont think. Im sure that he is responsible. Stahl putin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the charge is completely baseless and unacceptable. But Angela Merkle of germany and Emmanuel Macron of france have persuaded the European Union to impose sanctions over this. Well, all these leaders have signed on, except donald trump. And Alexey Navalny yes, i i have noticed it. laughs stahl is it important to you that he condemn this action . Alexey navalny so, i think its extremely important that everyone, of course, including and maybe in the first of all, president of United States, to be very against using chemical weapons in the 21st century. Stahl but why would putin want to poison Alexey Navalny . When we first met navalny three years ago, he was running against putin for president. He had made a name for himself by getting his hands on incriminating internal financial documents related to highlevel officials and posting them on a blog. Did these documents that you got prove corruption . Alexey navalny absolutely. I work as a whistle blower. And im not afraid to announce the names. Stahl he says he found that the kremlins inner circle was accumulating vast amounts of wealth and published pictures of multiple homes and yachts. He moved on to airing documentaries on youtube, with video of the officials lavish lifestyle. Alexey navalny and, its its something very special about mr. Putin, that hes crazy about money. Personal money, about his family being rich. His friends like, all his people who was served him with him with him in the k. G. B. , all of them, they are billionaires. Thats why fighting corruption means for him that hes fighting me. Stahl you know, im smiling because, here you are. You have survived the most potent nerve agent there is, and you are as fiery and worked up about your about putin and whats going on in this country as you were when i met you a couple years ago. Alexey navalny well, im glad. laughs im glad that i survived. Stahl his blog enflamed so much outrage in 2017 that tens of thousands of russians took to the streets against putin. When navalny called for a second round of protests three months later, he was arrested before he even left his apartment building. Hes been jailed so many times, hes lost count. Hes been beaten, had green dye with acid splashed in his face, and now he can add poisoning to his resume, and blame president putin. Now how can you say that . Why wouldnt it be one of the oligarchs whom youve embarrassed by, as you say, exposing their corruption . Alexey navalny even for an oligarch, its impossible to get this novichok. Its not something you can buy in the store, even if you have millions of the billions of dollars. Maybe more important, you cannot use it. You will kill yourself and everyone around. Because its very difficult to, you know stahl contain it. Yes, yes. Alexey navalny yes. And then, this huge cover up operation. There is no criminal investigation so far. If if putin is not responsible, why there is no investigation . And look what theyre doing right now. Like, putin with a conversation with the french president macron, he said, well, navalny poisoned himself. Seriously . Stahl mr. Putin told the president of france that you poisoned yourself . Alexey navalny yes. It was just to, you know, annoy him. Stahl putin is contending with rounds of protests in the far eastern part of the country, with people taking to the streets for the past three months. Navalny thinks the attempt on his life is connected. Alexey navalny despite his controlling police, judges, courts, media, and everything, still hes like, he understand that he is surrounded by protest. And its increasing. So thats why his they decided to, you know, exfod extreme measures. Stahl this is what he looked like just a month ago, soon after his doctors brought him out of an induced coma. Railthin, with a sickly pallor. This photo was taken the first day he saw his children after being taken off a ventilator. So you were in a coma. And then you woke up and what happened . Alexey navalny after this coma, i just jump to the long period of kind of crazy hallucinations. And several, you know, steps of realizing where i am, who i am. I could not speak and i could not write. Stahl well, how has this affected your family . Alexey navalny well, it was a difficult situation. But they stand it. Stahl including your children . Alexey navalny including children stahl you have your son is 12 and your daughter is in college. Alexey navalny right. Stahl those are tough ages to realize that your father came close to being assassinated. Did they say to you, pop, dad, you have to stop . Alexey navalny absolutely not. No. Absolutely not. My i am very lucky man because i have all support from my family. Stahl youd almost have to at this point. Alexey navalny yeah. Stahl navalny, his wife, his bodyguard and i went out for a walk in front of the Brandenburg Gate in berlin and a phalanx of Police Showed up. You certainly travel with a lot of protection. Alexey navalny yes, i have a lot of security. Stahl he is under the protection of the German Government because theres concern he could be the target of another poisoning. And yet, he said hes determined to return to moscow in a couple of months, as soon as he is 100 , and resume his work where he left off, campaigning against vladimir putin. You know, you used to be known as the man who had no fear. But what about your family . Do you ever think that you are youre putting them in danger . Alexey navalny that is a toughest part, yes. I dont feel any fear, but children what is kind of really a horrible thought, if they will try to use this novichok somewhere around my apartment, where my children is come. And, like, you know, this door or something, but everyone can touch it. Well sighs but anyway, we should fight these people because they will never stop. They will poison someone else. They will poison more people. Stahl well, how do you feel now . Are you back . Totally back . You seem to be. Alexey navalny i still need some time to recover. And im working on it. Stahl but you do go to rehab. Do you go every day . Alexey navalny yes, to learn from the scratch how to move, how to do some things. They interesting that i feel kind of a bit of wooden or tin man, like from the wizard of oz, because the body lost all flexibility at all. Interesting how its work. I have no idea. Its now its difficult move is for me, for example, pick something from the ground. Stahl what about the psychological effect of having knowing that somebody tried to kill you, came that close . Alexey navalny you know, i think its a good thing. Its very useful for politician, maybe facing death once, because its change you a bit. So maybe ironically, i became kind of more human after this, facing death. ticking so whats going on . Im a talking dog. The other issue. Oh. Im scratching like crazy. Youve got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. Apoquel can work on that itch in as little as 4 hours, whether its a new or chronic problem. And apoquels treated over 8 million dogs. Nice. And. The talking dog thing . Is it bothering you . No. Itching like a dog is bothering me. Until dogs can speak for themselves, you have to. When allergic itch is a problem, ask for apoquel. 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Dr. Jon lapook this weekend americans face another surge in the covid19 pandemic. Infections have passed the eight million mark and are rising rapidly. There are more than 218,000 dead. During the course of the pandemic, dr. Anthony fauci has been the physician most americans have relied upon for their information. But now, instead of worrying solely about developing vaccines or therapeutics, dr. Fauci finds himself unhappily caught up in president ial politics, under protection from Death Threats, and forced to defend science itself. With 16 days until the election, we began our conversation with a question many have been asking. Are you planning to vote in person . Dr. Anthony fauci im gonna try to vote in person. I like the the atmosphere of going and voting. Lapook i think a lot of people want to vote in person, but they are afraid. Fauci if someone asked me, im 75 years old, i have hypertension and im a little bit concerned, alleviate your anxiety, do an absentee ballot, no problem. Lapook but they could vote in person if they were careful. Fauci right, yes. Lapook dr. Anthony fauci has been a voice of logic and stability since the pandemic began. And right now, hes worried were heading in the wrong direction. Worldwide, the number of new cases is surging at an alarming rate, as seen in this map by Johns Hopkins university. This week, russia reported a Record