country. >> vladimir, you and i have talked over the past year about your friend alexey navalny and masha speaks from los angeles and does so at great risk. alexey chose to go back in and he close to do that. he knew he would be arrested and he thought that was the right thing to do. >> do you wish that he hadn't? >> it -- when he was first recovering after the poisoning in germany i thought it was my duty as his friend and ally to tell him that he doesn't have to go back to russia. there are different options at least to explain to him that that's not the one-way street, but bwhen i talked to him after he started his recovery and after we exchanged ideas i thought it was really a moot point. the work of his life is in russia. millions of supporters are there. he has done nothing wrong.