Tonight on the readout.

When there's a crash I hope it's going to be during this next 12 months

because I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don't want to be Herbert

Hoover. He wishes he was Herbert Hoover, who ranks significantly higher than Trump in a new

historians poll of the best and worst presidents.

Our presidential historian Michael Bessloss will join me.

Also on this moral Monday, waking the sleeping giant, Bishop William Barber joins me on his new effort

to mobilize millions of poor voters. Plus more anti-abortion lunacy from the right as

the Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos are children

as Trump reportedly pushes for a 16-week national abortion ban.

But we begin tonight with Courage versus cowardice.

In the days since Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death was announced,

ordinary Russians are picking up the mantle of courage even in the face of a crackdown

from the regime of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Across Russia, more than 400 people have been detained at tributes and memorials to

Navali in the most significant wave of arrests since protests against the war in Ukraine in September of 2022.

By risking arrest to mourn the martyred opposition leader,

Navalny's supporters provided a fitting tribute to the man who

returned to Russia knowing he would be arrested and probably killed, but who never

gave in to evil. Even as his last months in a Siberian gulag took its toll,

Nivale never lost his sense of purpose or his sense of humor.

The New York Times reports, confined to cold concrete cells and often alone with his books,

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