
Wife of Imprisoned Russian Dissident on Navalny's Death
Clip: 2/16/2024 | 5m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Evgenia Kara-Murza joins the show.
One who understands the tragedy better than most is the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition politician who was sentenced last April to 25 years in prison for treason and other charges that he has denied. Evgenia Kara-Murza joins the show to discuss the death of Navalny and the fears it stokes for the fate of other Russian political prisoners.
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Wife of Imprisoned Russian Dissident on Navalny's Death
Clip: 2/16/2024 | 5m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
One who understands the tragedy better than most is the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition politician who was sentenced last April to 25 years in prison for treason and other charges that he has denied. Evgenia Kara-Murza joins the show to discuss the death of Navalny and the fears it stokes for the fate of other Russian political prisoners.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> I WANT TO BRING IN EVGENIA KARA-MURZA.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
IF ANYONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT ALEXEI NAVALNY'S FAMILY IS GOING THROUGH AND EXPERIENCING, IT IS YOU.
YOUR HUSBAND ALSO A TRUE RUSSIAN PATRIOT, SURVIVED POISONING A NUMBER OF TIMES.
ONCE AGAIN, IS SITTING BEHIND BARS UNLAWFULLY FOLLOWING HIS OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE.
I'M CURIOUS TO GET YOUR REACTION TO THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF ALEXEI NAVALNY.
>> HELLO.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR INVITING ME.
ALEXEI NAVALNY'S TEAM HAS NOT YET CONFIRMED THE NEWS.
HIS WIFE HAS SPOKEN AT MUNICH.
SHE HAD NOT RECEIVED ANY CONFIRMATION EITHER.
THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT YET NOTIFIED THE FAMILY OF ALEXEI NAVALNY OF HIS DEATH.
I KNOW THE CHANCES OF HIM STILL BEING ALIVE ARE EXTREMELY SLIM.
MAYBE IT'S WHAT I DO.
I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS.
BOTH TIMES THAT MY HUSBAND WAS POISONED IN THE PAST, HE WAS GIVEN A 5% SURVIVAL CHANCE.
I THOUGHT, I TAKE THAT.
I TAKE THOSE 5%.
I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN.
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW -- WHAT HORROR THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH RIGHT NOW, HIS LOVED ONES.
MY HEART GOING OUT TO THEM ENTIRELY AND BREAKS FOR THEM.
I CANNOT -- IF ANYONE NEEDED ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION OF THE NATURE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN'S REGIME -- I MEAN, IF THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND THE WAR CRIMES COMMITTED THERE ARE SOMEHOW NOT ENOUGH, THIS IS YET ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION THAT THE ONLY THING A BULLY UNDERSTANDS IS A STRONG RESPONSE.
THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THAT WORKS.
WHEN I WAS TRYING TO PROCESS THAT INFORMATION THIS MORNING, I THOUGHT TO THE INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON RECENTLY.
I WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW HE SAT THERE LISTENING TO VLADIMIR PUTIN'S MUMBLING ABOUT THIS HISTORICAL NONSENSE AND THINKING, WELL, HE HAS NOT ASKED ONE SINGLE QUESTION ABOUT WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE.
HE'S NOT ASKED HIM ABOUT REPRESSION IN RUSSIA AND ABOUT HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS.
VLADIMIR PUTIN BELIEVED YET AGAIN THAT HE COULD GET AWAY WITH ALL OF THAT.
I BELIEVE SO.
IT'S THE ONLY THING A BULLY UNDERSTANDS IS FORCE, IS STRENGTH OF HIS OPPONENT.
I'M HORRIFIED TODAY.
>> EVGENIA, YOU MENTIONED TUCKER CARLSON.
I DON'T WANT TO SPEND TOO MUCH TIME TALKING ABOUT HIM.
I WANT TO READ TO YOU AND OUR VIEWERS ABOUT SOMETHING YOU JUST REFERENCED AND WHY HE WASN'T ASKED ABOUT THE WAR.
HE WAS ASKED IN A SEPARATE SUMMIT A FEW DAYS AFTER HIS INTERVIEW, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, HE WAS ASKED WHY HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN RUSSIA, OR NAVALNY OR THE ASSASSINATIONS, MULTIPLE ASSASS ASSASSINATIONS.
TUCKER'S RESPONSE WAS, QUOTE, EVERY LEADER KILLS PEOPLE, INCLUDING MY LEADER.
SOME KILL MORE THAN OTHERS.
LEADERSHIP REQUIRES KILLING PEOPLE.
I RAISE THIS NOT JUST BECAUSE THIS IS A JAW-DROPPING RESPONSE, BUT IT ECHOS SOMETHING WE HEARD FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN HE WAS CANDIDATE TRUMP I BELIEVE IN 2015, AND THAT IS WE HAVE KILLERS HERE IN THE U.S., TOO.
HOW DANGEROUS -- SPEAK TO HOW DANGEROUS COMMENTS LIKE THAT ARE IN RESPONSE TO WHAT WE ARE SEEING PERPETRATED BY THE RUSSIAN REGIME ON A DAILY BASIS.
>> THESE COMMENTS ARE INDEED VERY, VERY DANGEROUS.
THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE ALSO.
I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN GAVE THIS INTERVIEW TO CARLSON.
HE DID NOT NEED A RELIABLE JOURNALIST.
HE NEEDED SOMEONE LIKE TUCKER CARLSON WHO REPEATS AND REITERATES THE MESSAGES PUT OUT THERE BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.
HE NEEDED SOMEONE WITH A LARGE AUDIENCE AND SOMEONE WHO WOULD HELP HIM GET OUT HIS MESSAGE ABOUT HIS CLAIMS ON UKRAINE BEING SOMEHOW LEGITIMATE AND ABOUT HIM NOT REALLY BEING A KILLER.
YOU KNOW, HE IS A GOOD GUY WHO REALLY WANTS PEACE.
THIS IS DESPICABLE.
THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN IS THAT THIS DESPICABLE ATROCITY OF A MAN, WHO CALLS HIMSELF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SHOULD BE STOPPED.
HE HAS TO BE STOPPED.
THAT IS THE ONLY WAY WAR WILL BE STOPPED AND REPRESSION IN RUSSIA WILL BE STOPPED.
Hillary Clinton Reacts to Alexey Navalny's Death
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Clip: 2/16/2024 | 5m 40s | Hillary Clinton joins the show. (5m 40s)
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