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Things we just heard there. i heard some what aboutism that we hear often. when you hear from liz cheney who is a staunch republican conservative. those credentials cannot be taken away from her in party. are there any upsides for her to come out swinging against donald trump and trumpism? >> shes putting the constitution over her party. ooip not someone who will say i will embrace liz cheney an her policies that are probably 180 degrees different than myself. on the is up of how fragile our dem...

Unfortunately, for all the conspiracy theories drummed up by bizarre websites and, as i say, chinese cult websites, religious cult websites, unfortunately for people that buy into that, donald trumps own administration official, who was responsible for checking election integrity, said this was the cleanest election in american history. so thats on the republican side. i have to say, on the democratic side, too, the fact that not one democrat is upset that stacey abrams never conceded the race t...

Theyre dead serious about trying to convict these criminals. there are rules of war and the russians from the ukrainian position have violated them. >> i mean, speaking of violating, this tragic story of this steel plant in mariupol where now russia has essentially kidnapped the fighters inside of that plant defending their country and are now essentially trying to call them terrorists. what do you think happens to these men? >> i dont know, joy. its a scary moment. nobody wants to be captured b...

Republicans have moved further to the right than democrats have to the left. the dynamic was playing out even before the big lie litmus test. the deeper problem, as pew research points out, is that house democrats have grown more liberal and republicans much more conservative. the middle, moderate to liberal republicans could sometimes find modern ground on contentious issues has vanished. its no worder why so many moderates make up 37% of americans in gallups 2021 poll can feel underrepresented...

Grain of salt given the oppression and totalitarian regime that russia turned into, many people fearful of responding in any way this would be critical of the government. that having been said, i know you and i discussed this anecdotally, people we have known firsthand, in russia, who may be in the past have been critical of vladimir putin, are also sort of using this what aboutism or suggesting while war is bad, there is a reason why this is all happening. i would like to get you to respond, th...

Country if we let it run unabated. >> my god. >> yeah, it will destroy, you know, because we are talking about 0.003% of the population. this will destroy our country. look at people on both sides. seriously? just both sides, nonstop talk, nonstop talk about 0.003% of americas population. >> and this is how democrats will lose. >> seriously, this will destroy our country. we are hearing it on both. yes, it is what-aboutism, because the incredible focus on these issues is fodder for people like. ...

Jeopardy. Israel bombs gaza days after a new government takes shape. What led to this latest flareup of violence. Welcome to the lead. Im pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we begin today with our world lead, and this historic highstakes summit president President Joe Biden and russian president vladimir putin. The summit lasted roughly three hours with both leaders describing it as constructive and positive. They said there were no threats or ultimatums, and putin called biden balanced, profe...

Events of january 6th except to agree it really was not all that bad. floridas republican governor drone sanity is decried what he says is the unnecessary politicization of the 6th which of course was, well, an inherently political event perpetrated by one party in response to an electoral loss. >> i think it is going to end up being just a politicized charlie fox trot today. i dont expect anything good to come out of anything that pelosi and the gang are doing. i dont expect anything from the c...

Putin at the head of the 2014 ukraine crisis. the reality is it is not really a conversation. it is people reading speeches or in putins case tined of tie raids delivering them back and forth at length and what 350u9in will do constantly is what aboutism. he will go back to the idea that the united states is the one that created the crisis, the united states is the one who interfered in ukraine. he tries to draw into this debate about his alternative facts, alternative view of the world and hist...

Could trigger collapse in china just as it had in the soviet union. so he is stamping out diversity in favor of a national chinese identity loyal to just one thing. >> i love the communist party of china, this man has written. >> the accusation that there is the kind of forcible brainwashing of the uighurs in detention camps that look a lot like concentration camps is part of the danger, part of what president xi worries about, a danger of separatism. >> translator: separatism is a crime in chin...