We're alive, Abby Martin. How do you feel about that? I feel great. You've done that live shit before. Hell yeah. Hell yeah

You're free the Russians free. Abby Martin formerly of Russia today the lone standing voice

You were like the person with everybody would say Russia today, the lone standing voice. You were like the person who would say

Russia today, who the fuck's gonna watch that? Well that chick seems to be speaking her

mind. Hmm. Gave a lot of credibility to the network when you have dissent against the funder.

Yeah, that's a weird place to be though, huh?

Like that whole Crimea thing when you were a protest, the way you were talking and speaking in I guess in editorial fashion on your show

about what was going on with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Crimea situation.

They were like, well you should go there yourself and see it.

And you were like, fuck that.

Was that when you were starting to think, like, man,

maybe I should not be here?

Well, the problem was waking up to a press release saying that I was already

going to be shipped there without asking me. So that was when it shipped.

Shipped. So I just said no I'm not going to I just didn't want it to be a vetted press

experience for me you know I wanted to make my own contacts on the ground in Kiev plus it was like a war zone at the time

I mean maybe not Crimea but Ukraine yeah even though it's part of it yeah so I wanted to get training and also make my own contacts instead of just going with like

vetted Russians and just like going around Russians there and being like look everything's great

They're all happy like we vetted everyone already so here's your experience.

It has to be a weird gig working for Russia like the Russian sponsored news

network in America living in Washington DC like what a block from the White House yeah

It's great. You're in the belly of the beast and you're also working for the quote enemy right it's amazing whenever I meet guys at bars and

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