NBC News' @KeirSimmons asks Russian President Putin if he knew a commercial airliner would be forced to land in Belarus and journalist Roman Protasevich would be arrested.
"Are you waging a cyber war against America?" @KeirSimmons asks Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Where is the evidence? Where is proof?" Putin responds, speaking through a translator.
"Where is the evidence? Where is proof?" Putin responds, speaking through a translator.
.@KeirSimmons: "Will you commit that you will personally ensure that Alexei Navalny will leave prison alive?"
Russian Pres. Putin: "The person that you have mentioned, the same kind of measures will apply, not in any way worse than to anybody else who happens to be in prison."
Russian Pres. Putin: "The person that you have mentioned, the same kind of measures will apply, not in any way worse than to anybody else who happens to be in prison."
"What President Putin does again and again is try to deflect," @KeirSimmons says on his interview with the Russian President.
"We were trying to question him about Alexei Navalny, his leading critic ... He says yeah, but what about the Capitol riots, a complete segue."
"We were trying to question him about Alexei Navalny, his leading critic ... He says yeah, but what about the Capitol riots, a complete segue."
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