. >>> russian author and dissident masha gessen knows autocracy firsthand.ginally spoke with her before i visited moscow, which was before our election. and she had some reassuring words about a potential trump presidency. >> i feel like we're staring into an abyss. >> now that we're actually plummeting into that abyss, i sought out masha again for more of her comforting insights. this time i took her to the only place i feel truly safe. >> hey, julie b. >> my subterranean panic room. >> this way. what is the recipe for successfully resisting an autocracy. >> i had to flee my country. >> okay. >> most efforts to successfully resist that i know of failed. >> well, thanks for joining us. >> bunker rooms aside, masha gessen considered donald trump to not only be a man who ran for president and won, but what she calls an autocrat. in fact, she wrote a survival guide davis the election. it compares instincts to putin and offered rules like institutions will not save you. it took putin a year to take over the russian media and four years to dismantle its electoral