I know you're going to get into some stuff, some pretty heavy stuff, but this is Gary Kasparov.

I can't believe it.

When I was young, I was lucky, because as a chess prodigy, I could travel outside of the Soviet Union to play tournaments abroad.

And I experienced for myself that life felt different in the democracy.

The world celebrated in 1991 when the dictatorship of the Soviet Union gave way to new democracies.

And I too hoped freedom was on the rise.

Of course, the Empire did not want to let us go easily.

But in the decades that followed, we've seen the steady advance of autocratic regimes,

a new belligerence from dictators and autocrats worldwide, and democracies in retreat.

For dictators, for Islamic Republic, for Putin, for all the autocratic regime, America is first.

Their first target is the destruction of American values.

Even America, a beacon of hope to me and for countless millions of others,

has shown itself vulnerable to the virus of authoritarianism and corruption.

If you lie or your propagandists lie nonstop, then the reaction of the public is to say, right, you know, politics is a dirty game.

I have no idea what's true or what's not true.

I mean, that's exactly what's happening in the United States right now, is techno-fascism.

You called it hypocrisy.

I'm trying to be diplomatic, so I'm a host of the show.

I call it absolutely betrayal.

So I'm fighting the same battle. I fought in Russia.

What I have found is you need people that will speak truth to power.

In Russia, we lost the fight.

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