he was a freshman senator from maryland and i told him the story of what happened to sergei magnitsky and i said can we do something about this and he said yes. and he came up with the idea of the magnitsky act and he said to get a law passed in washington, it needs to be bipartisan, you need to find a republican. and so i looked down the list of republicans and one name jumped off the list which is senator john mccain. if anyone could empathize with what sergei had gone through, it was john mccain who had been imprisoned and tortured in a vietnamese prison camp so i went to john mccain and i told him the story and he couldn't believe what he was hearing and after the end of the story he said, god bless you, i'll do whatever i can to get justice for sergei magnitsky. and the two of those senators put together the magnitsky act. it was launched initially just for sergei magnitsky but as soon as it was launched other victims from russia started coming forward and said you found the achilles heel of the putin regime and you sanctioned the people who killed my father, my brother, my siste

they completely misjudged sergei magnitsky. had intensetsky integrity and principle and for him the idea of perjuring and bearing false witness was more painful than the idea of the physical pain him ande inflicting on he refused to change his testimony and bear false witness. result the pressure and the torture increased and increased and increased. after six months or so of this, his health started to break down. he started developing terrible pains in his stomach. he lost 40 pounds. and he was diagnosed by the prison doctors as having pancreatitis and gallstones and he needed an operation scheduled august, 2009.of about a week before the operation, they came to him and again asked him to sign this false confession and refused. and in retaliation, they him from thed prison that had a hospital to a maximum security prison called buterka, which was considered to the toughest and most awful prisons in russia and most sergei, they for had no proper medical facilities there. and his health completely broke down. he went into const

vladimir putin and his regime killed my lawyer sergei magnitsky from covering a massive putin connected corruption scheme and they killed him in a horribly sadistic way at the age of thirty seven and i've been going after them ever since they killed him and we've created a law in the name of sergei magnitsky in the united states in the u.k. in canada and the stony a laffey a lithuania and many other countries and there's a lot putin hate so much and that's the reason why he hates me and the fact that this law is causing him so much grief is something which which shows that we've got him back and that's what you with with pride you've been convicted in russia in a censure on two counts accused of tax fraud arrested very publicly in madrid last year accused among other things of killing mr magnitsky yourself. and then we come to this meeting in helsinki between trump donald trump the u.s. president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the twelve indicted military intelligence officers indicted by special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bill browde

vladimir putin and his regime killed my lawyer sergei magnitsky from covering a massive putin connected corruption scheme and they killed him in a in a horribly sadistic way at the age of thirty seven and i've been going after them ever since they killed him and we've created a law in the name of sergei magnitsky in the united states in the u.k. in canada and the stony a laugh we're lithuania and many other countries and there's a lot putin hate so much and that's the reason why he hates me and the fact that this law is causing him so much grief is something which which shows that we've got him back and that's what you with with pride you've been convicted in russia in a censure on two counts accused of tax fraud arrested very publicly in madrid last year accused among other things of killing mr magnitsky yourself. and then we come to this meeting in helsinki between trump donald trump the u.s. president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the twelve indicted military intelligence officers indicted by special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bil

vladimir putin in his regime killed my lawyer sergei magnitsky from covering a massive putin connected corruption scheme and they killed him in a in a horribly sadistic way at the age of thirty seven and i've been going after them ever since they killed him and we've created a law in the name of sergei magnitsky in the united states in the u.k. in canada and the stony a laffey a lithuania and many other countries and there's a lot putin hate so much and that's the reason why he hates me and the fact that this law is causing him so much grief is something which which shows that we've got him back and that's what you with with pride you've been convicted in russia in a censure on two counts accused of tax fraud arrested very publicly in madrid last year accused among other things of killing mr magnitsky yourself. and then we come to this meeting in helsinki between trump donald trump the u.s. president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the twelve indicted military intelligence officers indicted by special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bill b

ank handled $150 million linked to the murder of sergei magnitsky.th bill browder at 10:00 a.m. new york time. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. alix: back to the ecb rate bankion, the central saying it will offer more long-term loans to banks and keep interest rates low for longer. ofning us now, mark okada highland capital management and bill snead. where's my market reaction? mark: a lot of this is priced in. tightening. see any off the 30 basis points projection for this year and one quarter, two months -- in one quarter, or two months. the softness is meaningful. it made sense that they wouldn't tighten at all. replace the support they've given to the banks. david: can they do this with monetary policy? don't they need fiscal stimulus? bill: nothing from nothing leaves nothing. you have to have something if you want to be with me. here's all these cheap equities in europe, an economy that has floundered. what i thought about yesterday ago, the u.s. led th