evil of putin could be so cle clearly infiltrating washington. when you hear donald trump jr. met with a lawyer who has lobbied for the overturning of the the magnitsky act and they talked about adoptions, what do you hear when you hear that set of facts? the first thing my reaction is that nobody there wasn t a single person in the room talking about adoptions. it doesn t surprise me these people showed up in trump tower because putin has been trying every different tactic he can to try to ease these sanctions because these sanctions affect him more personally because his money is at stake. vladimir putin himself could be subject to magnitsky sanctions? that s exactly what i m s saying.
of charlottesville has sent out a tweet that says alert unlawful assembly declared for the rally at emancipation park. now we may see a change in the weather because this has now been declared an unlawful assembly. that just went out from the city of charlottesville. the sense of impunity, speak to that a little bit. i m sorry, i didn t catch that. i just wanted to say one thing. the chairwoman of the rnc did just tweet the hate and bigotrys dangerous. i agree with joan that we need a lot more leadership right now, vocal leadership, from republicans, from republican leaders, elected leaders in congress and in washington. this is the republican party right now that s on display. donald trump s republican party. if they don t want to be tied to it, if they don t want to be associated to it, people like
behind the 2012 magnitski act which imposed sanction on individual russians and was the topic of discussion at one now famous meeting in trump tower. joining me now is bill browder, founder and ceo of hermitage capital management. thank you for being here. thank you. your testimony got overshadowed. give us the encapsulated version why you went to washington to testify and what it is you think people need to know about the putin regime and the magnitsky a act. my lawyer was murdered by the russian government in 2009. i embarked on this big project to get justice for him which led to the passage of the magnitsky act which freezes assets and
out of a pizza parlor in washington and you see at the same time now, he is attacking hr mcmaster, the national security advisor who has clashed with steve bannon. so this, you get the impression that steve bannon has sent the alt right lynch mob after his rival in the white house. hr mcmaster and you see all of these disturbing links between these extremist outside and the people wielding power within the white house. if i can get my producers to just pull up, there was an article in foreign policy that talked about a memo that was circulated inside the national security council in which another person on the payroll of the united states government circulated this alarmist memo claiming that there were memes, anti-trump memes coming from quote unquote globalists and bakers and sort of all of the things that you might expect to come from the alt right fever swamp and saying these people were conspiring inside the government and it was all of the things you would expect and that