mind. but please know your words carry additional weight and attacking our russian partners is damaging to our current mission. joining me now with his response is former astronaut scott kelly, and you tore of the soon to be released "ready for launch." captain, great to have you here. before we get to the detente, and i hate to use those words, but what caused you to speak out so forcefully against the head of the russian space agency? >> when i saw them produce and later release a video leaving mark vande hei who is currently on the international space station, leaving him up there, separating the russian segment from the u.s. side of the space station, they are basically saying that they are no longer going to be responsible for a person that they agreed to take care of. and it just really outraged me. and i had to speak up about it and do it in a way that would