last year, prosecutors put magnitsky and browder on trial.as the defendants-- one deported, the other dead-- were tried for tax evasion. why should we believe it isn't true? look, you went to business there in the early period after the fall of the berlin wall when everything was possible. and you went in there and you made spectacular amounts of money. now, the russians say one of the ways you did that was by beating russian taxes. >> browder: well, one possibly could believe that, if you didn't look at the circumstances of events. if the person who organized the criminal cases against us was the person who stole $230 million and then we exposed; then, they killed my lawyer and now they're putting him on trial. it kind of destroys the credibility of any allegations they make. >> pelley: bill browder has turned part of his london office over to his own group of investigators, who have followed the money from the theft. >> browder: this tells you who's in the organized crime group. >> pelley: the results of the investigation are on his web sit

that was the sergei magnitsky bill. we felt, though, that it should be a tool available universally. well, we had to compromise on that. it was limited to russia. it's time to change that. along with senator mccain, i have introduced the global human rights accountability act, s. 1933. it has several bipartisan sponsors. it would apply globally, so yes, i would apply -- it would apply to the ukraine. it would have congressional sanctions to the use of the tools of denying visa applications and our banking privileges to those who are responsible for these atrocities. i believe our colleagues understand how important that is to do. it is important today that the state department issued its human rights practices for 2013. this is a required report that we request. it gives the status of human rights records throughout the world, talking about problems. now, i'm sure my colleagues recognize that human rights problems are not limited to solely russia or ukraine, from bahrain to china to bangladesh, from belarus to ethiopia

we have had a spat over the magnitsky act and the so-called adoption of russian children. i think what we have to understand is we have to differentiate between the obama administration and the u.s. congress. the obama and i think it's been fairly reserved. the u.s. congress if you look at the entire 23 year. not that i'm looking at has not been a force for promoting better relations with russia. those people in the congress who are adjusted in russia have tended to be people who are highly critical so things like the magnitsky list which freezes the assets of russian officials involved in human rights abuses originated in the congress and was not something that the obama administration wanted with this legislation on adoption. so the administration i think understands it but i think we are a pluralistic system and the congress is very important. they take a different approach to dealing with russia. >> host: one very important thing about your idea is in addition to being a leading academic you are -- your book covers a lot of ground. it starts with almost the last days o

we know the story of sergio mag it magnitsky who was investigating official corruption. we saw that happen with him. we saw who they line up with on the international stage. they are perhaps other than iran and perhaps equal with iran the most important supporter of assad and of what he's doing in syria. the slaughter of innocent civilians, over 100,000 people dead, hundreds of thousands of others now living in refugee camps displaced from their homes. this is who the russian president and the russian government have lined up with. beyond that, we should see the attitude they've taken towards iran. they not have been despite the administration's assertions, productive in dealing with iran's nuclear ambitions. on the contrary, they have been supportive or at a minimum have been a roadblock to progress being made with regards to preventing a nuclear iran. and so on issue after issue, we see this russian government lining itself up diametrically opposed not just to the interests of the united states but to the interests of the cause of world peace. how could you possibly --