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Every donor out there understands that you have an election coming up, and do you know what? whoever you text and communicate with, you could be next. one more point here, listen, they -- and liberals, i get it you are going to say this is what aboutism. the verdict is in. you are correct. this is what aboutism. because its what about principles. if there is an insurrection on january 6th. what the hell happened at that portland courthouse with a 30 day siege where antifa tried to burn a federal...

Congress with bipartisan support, a major social security package, and 95 and 96, clinton after oklahoma city pushes counterterrorism package. so those are the three factors, i think, allow for a rebound to happen. >> it just feels like the closer we get to the midterm election, the less the odds. of there being any give by any of the legislators necessary from what the president is looking to accomplish. professor, thank you so much for being here. your piece is really provocative. and has grea...

What aboutism. and trump, et cetera. this is the second time in a week that a fox news white house correspondent has been derided and castigated by the president of the united states. >> jesse: jacqui heinrich. i hate twitter but i tweeted out jackie was accused of asking a quote stupid question it was excellent and timely question about sanctions against russia and there president biden called her question stupid. here he called the actual reporter stupid. but this is a guy who that same nbc ne...

>> yeah, absolutely it would. and the u.s. has ironically taken the lead at the un security council in trying to call russia out for these alleged war crimes. heres the thing. the u.s. cant go ask the security council to refer to this situation to the criminal court because, you know why? the u.s. is not a signatory. any attempt to hold vladimir putin and his accomplices accountable will likely have to happen without u.s. support and involvement because it is an institution that we havent suppor...

His direct calculus. i will say also were seeing, i think, a major shift, a blowback to putins violent aggression in the face of all the global populous who elevated and venerated vladimir putin in recent years through forms of what aboutism or indirect funding to their organizations. but they now find themselves after making all sorts of excuses for vladimir putin, with no place to go. they cant spin their way out of this one. the utter brutality of his autocracy has been exposed for the world ...

War criminal remarks." the flip side, i guess, is what, if anything, does the biden administration get by calling putin a war criminal in public? >> first of all, lets be clear about the what aboutism here. putin every day tells his people on tv that the united states is supporting nazis in ukraine in a coup. supporting nazis and war criminals, im not an international lawyer, but these are -- the kind of ridiculous things they say about president biden, they say about our country, they say about...

After the "access hollywood" video would have come out, would have basically said were done with this guy. and some of them did for about five freaking minutes. and yet look what they did. and so now they have no moral standing to talk about this. but a gree with mara. leave aside the what aboutism. andrew cuomo needs to go, he needs to be impeached, needs to resign and i think that will be a good thing for our politics. >> in fact, there were women who wore "trump can grab my" mm-mm t-shirts i ...

That look a lot like concentration camps. is part of the danger, is part of what president xi worries about, a danger of separatism? >> separatism is a crime in china. if anyone in china wants to split any part of china against china, he or she becomes our public enemy. >> xi and his loyalists often respond with what aboutism. they argue what about american human rights abuses? >> if any country has practiced genocide, its not china. the enslavery of negro americans for hundreds of years, thats ...

Thing. >> i love the communist party of china, this man has written. >> the accusation is there is a kind of forcible brainwashing of the uyghurs in detention camps that look a lot like concentration camps s. part of the danger, is part of what president xi worries about, a danger of separate. i? >> separatism is a crime in china. if anyone in china wants to split any part of china against china or from china, he or she becomes our public enemy. >> xi and his loyalists often respond with what ab...

This kind of what aboutism and a gotcha moment for me and now i fell like im being watched everywhere i go and theyre ryi trying to catch me and ive been very strict in my own office to have a mask policy. and nobody else has ever said no to my request. i do think theres a lack of common decency thats going on. i had to turn off twitter notifications because it just became so nasty. >> yeah. i did that a long time ago. and im frankly much happier for it. state senator tina polsky, i wish the bes...