… government spy agencies with multibillion dollar black budgets turning their powers against the population they're supposed to be serving. It's that simple. So that's compatible with, with representative government and It's happening at scale. So in my case, not a complicated story. I wanted to interview Putin. This is before the Ukraine war because I, I, I, I always wanted to go to Russia. (39:51–39:53)
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