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Foreign policy hands, and they were very dismissive of what happened in those meetings. by the way, i used to meet with a lot of russians as ambassador. and you can have frank, tough conversations. there is nothing wrong with that, but you need to push back on things that i think are wrong. but number two, i hope to goodness sakes that tomorrow they go out and at least meet some people in russian civil society, the opposition, you know for all of the difficulties on policy we had with congressman mccarthy, he did attend our july 4th celebration. i was the host with 2,000 other guests. but then...

Jake. >> and, ivan, obviously the context here is important. a lot of putin's critics, whether they're politics or journalists have a curious habit of ending up dead. does she fear retribution for making the accusation she's making? >> reporter: you know, she said that every time -- she lives with their three children in virginia, by the way. she said that every time he would come back to russia to do opposition work, she was absolutely terrified, but she said that he was a russian patriot, he was absolutely committed to his cause. as for her personal safety, she really wants to get the messag...

>> well, frankly, there is no other possible reason. i don't have any money dealings. i didn't have any personal enemies. i didn't steal anybody's wives, nothing like that. the only possible motive in my case is political activity. >> the political activity, particularly in a country which has, of course, jake, such a poor record, a terrible appalling record when it comes to killing critics of the kremlin. >> and he was friends with boris nimsov. he was one of russian's high profile opposition leaders. he was shot to death right near the kremlin. he was in russia promoting a documentary about ...

Documentary coming nearly two years after the assassination of boris nimsov on that bridge just outside the kremlin walls. but, of course, he says himself he's a political activist. he's a kremlin critic. he heads the foundation to carry on the work of the assassinated politician. he's also sort of the face of one of the biggest political opposition groupings in russia as well called open russia. so, there are plenty of reasons why he could have been targeted in a country like that. >> matthew chance, thank you so much. appreciate it as always. moving ahead and rolling back how republican lawm...