Thanks you at home for joining us this hour.

All right, so first green shoots of spring, sun finally pushing its way through the clouds.

It was a beautiful, sunny, even warm day in Manhattan, which is part of why the ski masks

were so surprising.

I'm going to say a word here that I don't usually say, let alone on TV,

and that's because it's the name of the group, so do not hold it against me. But this is the

Russian punk band and protest group, Pussy Riot, in New York City this week.

We are members of Pussy Riot Russian protest group.

We've been imprisoned in Russia.

We've been persecuted.

We are in federal wanted list in our country.

We're members of Pussy Riot, a Russian protest group.

We've been imprisoned in Russia.

We've been persecuted. We're on the federal wanted list in our country. Pussy Riot are a punk band

and a protest group that have been jailed in Russia and beaten up and hounded all over the globe

now by Russian President Vladimir Putin. They have been chased out of that country.

As such, they remain one of the last remaining,

visible, uncompromising and alive elements

of the Russian resistance to Putin.

Putin, of course, has managed to just kill off so many others who dared to oppose him.

But this week, members of that Russian group came here, came to America, to New York City, to scream at us, to literally scream at us in an encouraging way, trying to tell us to act now before what has happened to them

in their country happens to us here in ours.

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