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Putin a very rich man then on to a somewhat more cryptic subject. The dollar bill proclaims in God we trust but hold your trust when you invest in so-called digital dollars.

David Pogue unravels the mysteries of crypto currency crypto currencies may be all the rage crypto currencies crypto crypto digital currencies that bypass the banks and the government interface. Reiki was a little baffling you're not alone. It's very confusing where in the very very early stages.

I liken this to maybe 1994 of the Internet coming up on Sunday morning. A practical guide to using the new currencies for anyone who is used to using the old time so often the women behind our presidents offered their own fascinating stories. Leslie stall is talking with the actors starting in the new TV series. The first lady. Well let me tell you, Michelle Pfeiffer plays Betty Ford life not girlfriend Gillian Anderson plays Ellen Roosevelt explained that in Viola Davis plays Michelle Obama. I didn't know until I started investigating and doing research is women will be on the images he saw later on Sunday morning, ladies of the United States. Faith Salie looks into the case of an exhibit celebrating Sherlock Holmes have a story from Steve Hartman and more on this Sunday morning April 10, 2022 and will be right back Ukraine's Pres. Zielinski's demanding world leaders mount a swift response to Friday's train station attack on civilians in eastern Ukraine. He called the attack yet another example of Russian war crimes are David Martin into the charges and the brutal history of war crimes more than 50 innocent people trying to flee the fighting killed in a Russian missile attack on a crowded train station among the first responders, investigators gathering evidence to determine if this is a war, full of unspeakable violence and civilians always self but it is a crime to kill civilians on purpose were seeing a pattern of deliberate attacks against civilians and ambassador Beth Shockey is a State Department official in charge of assembling evidence that could prove Russia is committing more crimes in Ukraine every day it seems there is another crime scene to investigate some of them encompass entire cities where residents are being relentlessly bombarded by the Russians think that Larry pull theater attack is really emblematic of that. Obviously civilian full of individuals were sheltering from the war around them and it gets deliberately targeted by Russia's forces you distinguish during a war crime just atrociously bad behavior.

What we need to do is focus on deliberate attacks against civilians, or indiscriminate attacks against civilians. Those are clear, war crimes, not there's no fog of war here right if you look at a map, for example, of Mary pole you can see where the military objectives might be, which would be appropriate targets for a military campaign and then you see where the actual strikes were happening. Then there are the streets of individuals who clearly were in custody with her hands tied shot execution style left in basements left in fields.

This is not just shells coming from miles and miles away. This is close range violence committed by at the hands of Russia's forces.

Have you seen any evidence of the Russian search returned cover-up crimes chillingly less of that than you might expect the bodies are being left in the street. They seem to be doing this in a nut unbelievably brazen way that's that's really shocking you go after for the perpetrator pull the trigger.

The commander of troops or their leaders spoken most Franklin answers all of the above, but you're always looking to go up the chain of command to the architects of this terrible violence because of you crying very very quickly to the more senior ranks because of the massive evidence that is available just as Richard Goldstone, the chief prosecutor of war crimes committed in Bosnia in the 1990s shows the key in Ukraine will be establishing a pattern of short excerpts from it may be difficult for the goal of our president president.

In order senior general before pursuing a group should be one of the other parents of their ovaries moves in order for that system to be carried out years to investigate Bosnia president of Serbia himself dictator named Slobodan Milosevic ultimately ended up in the dock at the international court and they for the longest dreams never thought you'd be standing there was a revolution in this country and he was kicked off in a report on the plane and bundle bolstered most of it. She died in prison before a verdict could be reached was small fry compared to Vladimir Putin, president, bodices should be tried as a war you make a case against because he is essentially an autocrat with complete control over the apparatus of the Russian state and the Russian military it's actually a much easier case than we've seen in some other situations do you need some kind of verbal direction, that he gave to his commanders even without the so-called smoking gun order. There is still this idea of command responsibility that the images are so stark it so clear that his troops are running amok on terrorizing the civilian population within Ukraine. Have you heard anything has should today that could be used against him is evidence of a worker said I think that's important must know the facts from from what you learn to screw if he hasn't taken steps. It that would make him guilty of Vladimir Putin, ever be indicted for crimes. I think he will be indicted. I'm not sure whether he'll be in custody. Reminds and undermines in Russia is not going to stand trial for international criminal court in the hood that in no way should dissuade prosecutors from going ahead with their work. You never know what what will happen an indictment of food you would make the president of Russia international fugitive is not easy for start to fear being arrested when he or she puts forth in a European country on the American continent is inevitably now trapped in Russia. He will never be able to travel internationally because it would be too great a risk that he would be captured and brought before a court of law to say most true for any other Russian charge with warcry they will enjoy some impunity while they stay within Russia.

But what we have seen is perpetrators don't stay within their home states. They want to go shopping in Europe or go on vacation somewhere and they get identified and then the law enforcement is activated and we are never more integrated than we are now no rush standing trial will lead this effort failed.

I don't think so.

I think it's incredibly important to document the truth of what is happening, if only for the purposes of keeping an accurate history of this horrific moment in time but also for the benefit of the victims and the survivors correspondent David Martin by some estimates. Vladimir Putin is worth more than $200 billion sandstone speaks with a businessman who's made it his life's work to expose the web of corruption behind Putin's immense wealth.

All of a sudden the world cares about what is evil Bill Browder Putin target himself sues the war in Ukraine is sharpening the world's focus on the Russian Pres.'s quote evil, but that's long been clear to the UK-based American born businessman was in this London Park. The Browder says he received an alarming phone call US intelligence had learned might be kidnapped and taken to Russia by safe world in London clearly evaporated Browder's decades long odyssey with the top levels of Russian power started after he moved to Russia in the 1990s to profit from its privatization. Following the fall of the Soviet Union. Browder's Hermitage fund soon became the largest foreign investment fund in the country. They researched Russian companies initially to invest what we discovered was that the oligarchs and corrupt officials who control these companies were stealing all the all the profits all the assets of the companies so the only way that that I felt like I could responsibly invest is if I could figure out how they're doing the stealing and try to stop them. Not a way to make yourself very welcome in Russia well is it was interesting because of the beginning of this moment. Vladimir Putin was fighting with the same guys that I was fighting with, but it turned out that he wasn't trying to end the oligarch era.

He just wanted to become the biggest oligarch himself. This is quite a web. This gives you some sense.

The money flowed from the Russian treasury Browder showed us some of the elaborate money-laundering operations. They helped to uncover over to Latvia and Switzerland. The whole idea of money-laundering is to make it so complicated that effectively nobody could put together a chart like this. It takes an investment guy who's moved to Russia to do this takes an investment guy whose lawyer friend was brutally murdered and has made it his mission for the rest of his life to after the murders. To do this that lawyer and friend was Sergei Meg Nitschke, who'd been investigating a tax fraud scheme on Browder's behalf by coming pay taxes to the Russian government. A bunch of Russian officials sees my documents and then organize identity theft of my companies and then organize for a $230 million tax refund taxes we paid back to the stone companies so they can enjoy the money survey was the person who figured out the whole $230 million tax rebate, fraud, Meg Nitschke then provided testimony to the Russian state investigative committee, but five weeks after surgery, testified the same officials we testified against arrested him, put them in pretrial detention in Russia where he was then tortured to get him to withdraw his testimony. Sergei Meg Nitschke died in a Russian jail in 2009. He was 37 years old you feel responsible for his death.

I do how do you deal with that I made about his his memory to his family to myself that I was going to devote all my time all my energy and all my resources to go after the people killed him. Make sure they face justice. It's wonderful to see you lobbied for a landmark piece of legislation called the Meg Nitschke act. It originally sanction people link to that tax fraud and Sergei Meg Nitschke's death signed into law in 2012. It focused attention on the sort of corruption they'd uncovered part of the money for the scam. When you purchase a whole bunch of properties. Some of that money from the tax scheme wound up in London, New York and Dubai.

So you have people in the tax office with neighboring villas correct his search for justice was the basis for a best-selling book now out this week is his latest freezing order published by Simon & Schuster, a division of Paramount global which owns CBS. It's the tale of what happened next. True story of money-laundering murder and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath. Some of this sounds like something out of a lawful Mafia movie blood report is the Mafia boss all his ministers are likely the Sopranos like the New Jersey Mafia the Brooklyn Mafia the Philadelphia Mafia. They know they can all take as much money as they can steal and then they got a pay tribute up to the Mafia boss Browder alleges that some of that stolen $230 million ended up in Vladimir Putin's hands leader, infamous for his shadowy wealth Russian president's official salaries.

About $140,000 annually, which raises some obvious questions aside is $1.4 billion residents. It is $700 million yacht million dollar watch collection but you Putin has long maintained Sergei Meg Nitschke died of a heart attack in his animus towards Browder was clear in this 2018 presidential press conference person so we can bring up the stairs to Browder when he suggested to Donald Trump that Russia might be willing to swap 12 indicted Russian military intelligence officers, the US would turn over Bill Browder. I was in shock. You successfully campaigned for other countries to adopt the Meg Nitschke act to target corrupt officials and human rights abusers and Browder is proud that it's now among the sanctions being used to punish Russia. Since its invasion of Ukraine. The story of survey Meg SK was a tiny microcosm of what's now been multiplied by a million times, the people of Ukraine. Apparently criminal front of Vladimir Putin the same way as we did a very small way I feel heartbroken because people listen more to what I was saying over the last 10 years. Perhaps wouldn't be in the situation has no intrinsic value. You can't hold it off and you can't spend it about crypto currency. David Pogue explains, if you haven't heard of crypto futures.

You clearly been watching TV leading regulate crypto currencies for the most part in the green today crypto crypto crypto if you're not quite sure what crypto is what you're supposed to do that in the next seven minutes. You will learn everything there is about crypto possible learning. It's as easy as 123456789 number one bit coin was only the first crypto crypto is short for crypto currency. Bitcoin was the original one and it still by far the most popular but there are over 10,000 different crypto currencies. Anyone can start one up number to their purely digital currencies. If you go to Google images and you type in bitcoin you get thousands and thousands of pictures of physical metal coins. Don't be fooled. The only place you can see crypto currency is on your phone or on your computer screen. The only cash register is the Internet.

Crypto is not easy to spend. This is another reason why bitcoin may not strike you as a regular currency for now you have a really hard time spending 979 you take coin now. Unfortunately, you take coin, you take bitcoin know one of the few stores that accept bitcoin directly is the PJ Bernstein deli in New York take bitcoin and here's what it looks like to pay for lunch with crypto someone is 725 bucks to have a little code to send me a verification code which is 280-8216 and submit for banks and governments are part of the chain so crypto needs some trustworthy way to track all those transactions and that is what block chain is it's a theoretically tamperproof public online database is a new type of ledger were different parties who don't know each other and certainly don't trust each other, actually can trust that shared ledger is the so-called Golden copy of all the data long is the CEO and founder of custodian bank, a bank for digital currencies. Can I see all you need is an Internet connection and sure enough@websiteslikeblockchain.com.

You can look at the transactions happening in real time. All essentially anonymous.

So if you can't really shop with crypto currencies than what good is it that this point is mostly an investment speculative one got a big spike during the pandemic number five today crypto is primarily for investors and I think it's like the biggest bubble of our lifetime.

I can see what could be worthless. At some point very possible.

Ryan Payne is the president of pain capital management wealth management firm zero there is no there is no intrinsic value like usual. Even gold whereas bitcoin there's no use in society for which again in my mind equals could be worth nothing but traditional currency isn't based on anything physical either a dollar bill has value only because we all believe that it does good. We use as money is a piece of linen with a picture of Pres. and Green printed on it for the last 50 years. Nothing's been backing it substantially since the US and the rest of the world moved away from the gold standard. Just as an intermediary.

That's all it is number six cell crypto exchange websites. This is what it looks like to buy $50 worth of bitcoin@queenbase.com which is the largest US exchange email address, send a verification email to me all they want my phone and wants to know the code. They just since last four digits of my Social Security take a picture of my drivers license bank number and password, $50 fine now and I have successfully purchased 1/1000 bitcoin seven. Most crypto currencies are volatile investments.

I did all that last May. I bought some bitcoin and within six months my money had more than an and as of this week is crashed almost all the way back down to where it started.

Number eight get easier. It's very confusing where in the very very early stages likened this to maybe 1994 the Internet and it will have a look and feel very much like your online banking crypto has some other problems to overcome before it's ready for the mainstream. There are all kinds of scams transactions are slow.

If you lose your crypto password you can lose your entire investment in crypto transactions can bypass US financial sanctions on Russia and there's a terrible environmental cost. Creating new bitcoin's and confirming their transactions require massive banks of computers burning vast amounts of power by some estimates. Every time you make a bitcoin transaction is network spews out half a ton of carbon dioxide. I'm trying to figure out how you can look at the same facts as crypto fanatics and draw such different conclusions reflect a great story. Bitcoin is a great story decentralized finance is a great story is just human nature doing what it does. Over and over again deluding itself, but we know based on history hobbies came along could not disagree more. It's not a perfect system by any stretch but it's going to make things better, faster, cheaper, more secure, and frankly devolve power away from the big banks and even governments towards the individual crypto is polarizing. You can't believe how many haters and how many fanatics there are. But at this early stage in the life of crypto everyone seems to agree on one thing I certainly would do not ever encourage anyone to put more money into this and you can afford to lose my philosophy is just put money into it you can afford.

Why would anyone spend decades collecting Sherlock Holmes memorabilia as faith sailing tells us the answer is elementary easy for Glenn rancor to select what to share from his sure Lockean trolls when he and his wife Kathy created the exhibit Sherlock Holmes in 221 objects now on display at the Grolier club in New York City objects are in your collection about 8000 when you stop. My hope is I will stop the day before I die.

It's not hard to deduce why the more anchors chose 221 objects fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart sidekick Dr. James Watson share a London flat at 221B Baker St., there's no mystery why Glenn rancor is not a call about the mercurial detective kind of a magical figure he can do things you and I can't do. He was highly flawed. No doubt a misanthrope, probably a bit of misogynist yet he spent his life helping people, a former executive at Apple rancor has amassed a treasure of home. Siana first editions, pirated copies, illustrations, and letters very large part of what interests me about the items in my collection is how did this book is written. Why was it written how much Conan will make on what is the back story Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dr. by trade, published his first Sherlock Holmes case in 1887, 59 stories followed for you and Edward in readers clamoring to get their hands on every new installment rancor, people would buy the latest issue at the new shop at the train stations become engrossed in the tumble into the story like Alice falling down the rabbit hole they would look up and they missed their stocks. The 221 objects offer little myth busting to interesting though elementary said he elementary yes the line you remember.

You probably remember when entering my dear Watson, which actually is not in the story. It's not in any story that Arthur comment Doyle ever wrote, and now that we've cleared that up that iconic hat and pipe.

Neither the deer stalker hat or the mission pipe appears in any of the stories they're not there. The closest we get is this dear stalker, which appears in one of the original illustrations but it's not mentioned in the story itself. The signature was an invention of actor William Gillette who first played the detective in 1899 and wanted to brandish a big bold prop. So he wrote to Conan Doyle said do you have any objections if I use such a pipe, and clinical politely said do whatever you want.

I don't care Doyle's indifference to Sherlock's persona had something to do with the fact that he came to present the popularity of the euro so much that he ultimately through homes over a cliff at the hands of his mortal enemy and one of my rancor's most prized items is Doyle's written confession blamed for doing that gentleman to hold that it was not murder justifiable homicide in self-defense killed him.

He would certainly have killed, but Doyle never truly succeeded in killing off the old chap.

Just ask Glenn rancor when you talk about Sherlock Holmes.

He sounds like a real person and someone you know he was a real person. In fact were not even sure he's not with us still.

Surely he would had an obit if he died.

I'm convinced that 154 take you still with us is to take out with preacher Gareth this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell and one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to set races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's surprised New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like that you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with major Gareth on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA.

Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition states put her mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and empirically as our strategic situation or motor situations not being matched up with follow.

Intelligence matters were ever you get your podcasts arose about Betty Ford and Michelle Obama certainly among the many fascinating women to occupy the White House.

Leslie Stahl is talking with the stars portraying these three remarkable first ladies, Michelle Pfeiffer plays Betty and I didn't know how much he had done behind the scenes and how really she actually was Viola Davis plays Michelle Obama years back and think to the relationship with her own agency and autonomy and then all of a sudden she sort of had to trade it in. You know to become first lady to it that you need to state the facts plain and simple. 30 million Americans are working they don't want to be pandered to. Gillian Anderson plays Alan Roosevelt my heart for such a long time I didn't quite understand why a AFSCME 53. She was close to six but you sure teeny on television, but I fell so in love with her. In the process. So glad that I said yes the portraits of these first ladies will air in a 10 part series on Showtime, a division of CBS's parent company Paramount global don't push me off. I am not one of your girlfriends. At first glance, these first ladies seem to have little in common by even though they existed in different historical times.

The really strong themes that runs throughout the series, finding their voice their struggle to be heard. So you extracted. That is an admission of guilt with. I was surprised, and frankly thrilled that so much of this series takes place in the bedrooms where the intimacy of the first family is portrayed for us. I just want to go through some of the scenes that stick out in my mind one Michelle is when Jerry Ford pardons Nixon, and Betty is lipid go pancreas that we see her you receiving you know that this makes us look complacent, don't you. She had made a promise to the American people that this family would always be truthful and I think she held Jerry such a higher standard that she really, really believed in her mind that he was going to do the right thing and I don't.

Jerry thought he was doing well, he thought he was doing the right, he thought he was doing well, he thought he was healing the country politically. But she was offended because she felt that it it tainted family the honor of the family and the integrity of the family. I'm saying that I can contribute I'm saying. With all due respect, I do not qualify spatially. I don't want you to become a liability to your husband is you are more than happy to pick me up during the campaign.

The campaign is over.

This politics in more behind-the-scenes moments. The series takes some dramatic license file. One of the scenes that keeps resonating in my mind was how hostile the relationship between Michelle Obama and Rahm Emanuel was. I didn't realize it was that intense light that we took liberties.

I actually don't believe that Michelle would you know cuss out Rahm Emanuel. Well, I think that Michelle stayed in her lane.

Michelle would stay in her lane. Why was the decision made that she would not be portrayed that way because you know that once you get to that White House as the first black president and the first black ladies you know what you're up against Rob right there you tell you were quite actual white said to stay out of our family business to.

It's like the famous quote. We went to mass the grins and lies. So I'm saying that there is a protocol that Michelle is aware of, but with wrong.

We took some liberties we did for dramatic purposes, 321. You see, each of the first ladies grow in their public roles. She hated public space is convening really that what she had to say was so much more important than anything that was going on with her and her fears of self-doubt. My doctor advised me that the source of my pain.

It was actually much deeper and he might see what was the moment when you said I get this woman I can play her. I saw my mother and I was hearing the by women of that generation revolutions were happening all around, but they had made a pact already to really live for their husband's ambitions and fulfillments and support them and all of a sudden the rules of the game change on and they were to far in to reverse course.

It was so terrible to have a black family in this house that he is not about his in a way Viola Davis had the greatest challenge. Everyone knows Michelle Obama is they know what she looks like they know what she sounds like they love her and she had been dead 400. Do you know what I'm saying and it behooves me to look at her behavior. She holds up her how she holds her lips. It's like all of that work before I could even get to our first Viola Davis feels a special responsibility for the series fashion shoot gardening. You want me to be roasted alive is being elitist and out of touch. She is one of the executive producers tell us how it came about and why you wanted to do it. Why wanted to do it and why. What I wish I had a better answer.

It's a chance for women to play roles in a complicated and who these women were beyond you know the images that we saw on television.

I was like you kidding me we can get these weekly awesome justices single-season. Then they'll have the ability to shine so there will be more seasons with Newcastle. First ladies shining more light on the struggles, emotions, and influence of these important figures in American history. They really are the heroes working behind the scenes and working for social justice. They had the courage to really listen to what they felt was just Steve Hartman this morning has the story of a man driven by emotion or vision. You're welcome to listen, but I chose this week story greatly for an audience of this 12-year-old name. Yes, Ted is my nephew very hard visa sometimes his blindness feels insurmountable. Like I was sent a little mature but what was needed on the field. Yes, I really want to be like everybody else.

Sometimes that's why when I heard about this drag race attempting to set a Ted and others like had the driver in 2012 Dan Parker of Columbus Georgia got the crash. He suffered a traumatic brain injury so severe it.

Why did I Robin Rice of all life as a machinist by trade and got adaptive equipment so he could make parts in the design this entire race everything in the scar like beard and mustache see listeners. The word is last week Dan and his crew came here to spaceport America in southern New Mexico to attempt to get this record fastest car driven blindfold blindfold special audio guidance system. In for safety purposes cited driver next to hands hovering over the steering wheel just in case it wasn't necessary and went 211 miles an hour set a record. More importantly example I want you know that blindness is not one stop. Surround yourself with believers and go through dreams, you can make excuses or make it happen. Dan says inspiring the world is the main my nephew is dictation.

It was well worth the drive that well then I think I could easily pursue my dream will find what I want to thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy to its final season is the point is we need people in the best way to protect good people is to final season Millstream