>> well, it's plain and simple. alexey navalny is the only opposition figure in russia that has a national movement, that has a political organization that stretches from the furthest reaches of each of russia's time zones, that is able to galvanize and motive and get people out on to the streets to get people interested, and to make people care. and that is incredibly frightening if you're vladimir putin sitting in your little bunker in moscow, terribly frightened of anyone who is speaking truth to power and calling out him and his inner circle for their absurd corruption. and i think that's primarily why the kremlin is so keen to eliminate alexey, whether that's literally murdering him or casting him away in soviet style to some gulag in the outer reaches. >> just put this in the context of what's happening right now. we have vladimir putin, who is pretty much under siege because