joining me now is gary kasparov, revered as the greatest chess champion of all time. he attempted to run for the russian presidency in 2008 and he's been warning the world about putin's moves for years and he joins me right now welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> in fact, i covered your attempted presidential run back in 2008. i remember you being hauled with some of your supporters into the back of a police van, remind us why as an independent candidate you couldn't officially be a candidate? >> because we should stop misleading people talking about elections, it's more like a ritual to reappoint a dictator his endless rule. putin has to do it, has to pay tribute to russian constitution that he's been violating all the time to russian citizens but most importantly to the rest of the world and even ten years ago, which many of us called vegetarian time because at that time you could spend five or ten days in jail for protesting, today it will be five or ten years. >> you call that vegetarian days? >> yes, vegetarian days so they did not let anybody who was not fu

plus, analysis from russian dissident and world chess champ garry kasparov. we'll break down the politics, smoke out the spin. the facts that matter this week. >> announcer: from abc news, it's "this week." here now, chief anchor, george stephanopoulos. >> good morning. hope you had a good week. it was another one of those wild ones at the white house. starting with that tweet fired off by president trump tuesday morning sacking rex tillerson. a new first, firing his secretary of state by social media. behind the scenes white house aides wonder who is next. national security adviser, chief of staff, take your pick from the cab threat. but even as john kelly put those rumors to rest for now on friday morning, that firing of andrew mccabe by attorney general jeff sessions made headlines friday night. the president weighed in just after midnight. andrew mccabe fired, a great day for the hard working men and women of the fbi. a great day for democracy. sanctimonious james comey was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir boy. he knew all about the lies and cor

know this russian issue about schools so it is a concern for take a look at this week here kerry kasparov says integration will be possible in a stony are when politicians start using ethnic tensions to divide the electorate during elections more efforts are also needed to address segregation in all areas of life and workplace discrimination so yada. elections coming up in lots of someone here is talking about the politicians in a stone do you think that this is being used as a political issue to tear people apart absolutely soul is used as a political issue. which is not. we just do not have a still no language teachers i have five children and my youngest children are studying in it's clark last he is twelve years old in russian speaking school and i just see mistakes in hughes in his school books which are done by the lady who is teaching the student my students but. this is not normal this is about this is about equality this is one thing the second thing is that. you can you can start of this language and you will learn it but the problem is what will you be able to see after it duri

. >> i want you to hear from a long time putin opponent, garry kasparov.about the response by the pretties. it's a start, but proportionate response is what putin wants, predictable escalation he can absorb. deterrence must be based on -- obviously he's arguing for a disproportionate response at some point, that that's the only thing putin will respond to. >> i agree with garry. i'm glad they expelled 23 diplomats. and i hope many of them were spies. that's the right response. i also want to see a nato response. there's something called article 4 in the nato treaty, where there will be consultations among us all about what we can do in response to attacks like this. so there should be a multilateral response, but ultimately garry's response is right, you have to hit them where it counts. there's a lot of russian money in the uk, that would be where it would hurt, especially if there are people closely connected to putin. >> every once in a while, putin likes to talk about international agreements. i believe russia is a signer on the chemical weapons treaty

while one russian dissident chess master garry kasparov not confirming he's murdered but why wouldn'tgain. >> if it was assassination, could be organized crime, could be agents working on behalf of russian intelligence. another piece of the mystery, craig and hoda, one of the first responders who was there initially is still hospitalized for contact with this substance. we still don't know what it is. >> a bizarre story in england for us. kir, thank you. >>> move over to dylan dreyer. dylan has been tracking this big storm on the way. hey, dylan. >> hey, guys. part of the storm system is rain along the southeast. this the front in which the area of low pressure will eventually develop off the coast. meantime heavy rain about to move into atlanta, central alabama, southern mississippi and louisiana where we could see the potential for some heavier downpours and also some isolated stronger storms as well. this will move eastward as we go through the day today moving into florida, southern georgia and there's the area of low pressure off the south carolina coast that will develop into th

adding insult to injury that's what it feels like for kasparov is accounting employees. they're on the verge of losing their jobs as their departments being move to poland. and they're being asked to train the people who will be replacing them. brands union representatives are appalled by what they consider a cynical move. it's extremely brutal. stabilizing the employees that are you almost. done. i don't know maybe they enjoy hurting the employees. because that's what it is values are you in this confidential documents management spelled out redundancy plan. some of the collaborators of the krakow accounting center will come to work in town from our cast a home of france's accounting department as part of that training. an order that cast around as workers have no intention of following. we haven't seen. them playing us for fools. was a phase of them said. well. today they are asking us to do something that's inconceivable. the in total kingfisher has announced four hundred and forty six job cuts in administrative positions that they cast around and rico devereaux chain