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People in the crowd, i've just seen some of the reports, i'm not there in moscow but people saying they were bussed in, state workers or young people from school put on a bus and brought there so it's really hard to tell how many were there because they wanted to be, because they knew what the event was going to be before they got there, but i would just note, too, that where does this happening? moscow is also a place that shows how divided russia is right now. there's a lot of support within russia for this war, i think, in large part because of the type of information they're being given, b...

Greater scale, the threats and intimidation by putin against nato, against the u.s. >> this happened last september so months before we began seeing a substantial build up in ukraine. it was laying the groundwork for this extraordinary suppression, this almost soviet style suppression that's underway now in russia, and it's all very deeply connected. so it wasn't as you pointed out, just wasn't the google executive, it was also apple's executive in russia faced an almost identical scenario, and it shows russia at this point is using everything it can to choke off information to its people. som...

>> this is what the russian authorities insist is not happening. the russian leader is adamant his military is not hitting homes in the ukrainian capital or elsewhere, because attacking civilians is an international war crime, and president putin insists he's doing everything he can to preserve the lives of civilians. that's in direct contradiction to the evidence we and many others are finding on the ground. in the center is a playground, around it, a residential block, people's homes, schools, they've been pretty much reduced to rubble. and these are some of those who used to live in them. t...

Schools have been suspended for the time being in the capital or these classrooms would have been full of pupils. these attacks are killing and they're not soldiers or fighters. the daily attacks have left others badly hurt. he survived with terrible head wounds. his wife did not. the victims here don't have much faith in any peace talks succeeding and no one we spoke to had any doubt about who the attacks are aimed at. do you think it was specifically targeted at civilians like you, why, though? >> yes, yes, i definitely think this, she says. putin's trying to kill as many ukrainians as he ca...

To see things coming down the pipe for these companies in terms of what their commitments are, and of course you have to understand that not just the justice department but certainly the defense department, the pentagon understands the commitments that these companies have. one of the things that i think is interesting as well. it's not only u.s. companies facing this pressure. when we saw that exodus of oil companies a few weeks ago, not just bp, but shell and others leaving russia, total energies, the french company, a $38 billion taxpayer in the french government. they have thousands of peo...