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Pulse on what republican votes want than tucker does than what we would have or for our highest hopes. i remember in the 2016 campaign de souza and others going out and saying putin is a stronger leader than obama, and, you know, the jabs of the world were like, this is a silly talking point, this is ridiculous. but trump echoed that. and that was the message that republican voters overwhelmingly wanted to hear. if you look at polls now, there is a disturbing trend of republican voters having mo...

Protect the democratic west from the aggression of a vladimir putin. >> yeah, the other diagram hear, im talking about tucker, as well is this sort of affinity with white nationalism or at least an openness to talk about things like white replacement theory, the fuentes of the world. >> a neo nazi. >> there you go. >> hes a neo nazi. i dont know what the rules are, right? all neo nazis are white supreme cysts. hes specifically one. you have two members of congress with a legitimate neo nazi. >> ...

Are very used to instability and war. they told me, as of the day before it occurred, that they werent expecting this to happen, that they knew that there wasnt going to be an attack, that vladimir putin wasnt going to roll in, and its not out of simple or affinity for the russians or for vladimir putin. it wasnt out of some sort of sense of defiance or hubris. you know, in our hotel, a couple of days before this happened, there were -- there was a child dance competition. 700 parents from all o...

Clark. if i was there, thats a russian-speaking city. second largest city in ukraine, and a russian speaking majority city. putin might have thought that when his military came and, that people from the city will greet them as liberators as he has the sort of twisted, eric dentist view of russian speakers in ukraine, and how they would somehow have more affinity to moscow kentucky. well, that was in the case, and i know that from the weeks respected kharkiv. people, there even though the russian...

Republican party that feels affinity for putins ideology, the authoritarian approach to politics and you would think that shocked them out of that and the reality is one of the positive aspects of americas response to the horrific invasion of ukraine has led to the rest of the republican party falling in line with the forceful response to what russias done. clearly those are indicative of a deeper wrought in the far right part of the party that is still there. >> and we should point out another ...

On telegram. that is a popular russian messaging platform. and on that platform theyre saying things like this is russias war. theyre being very clear that the kremlin is putting out disinformation and saying that very explicitly. but then you also have individuals who are getting involved in this. we saw a video this week from arnold schwarzenegger talking about his experience traveling to russia, his affinity for the russian people, as a child how he looked up to russian body builders. and wha...

To the military, who understand exactly where theyre coming from and where they are now. theyre the most battle-hardened army in europe at this point, so they are proud of that, and my friend who has joined the military recently was not a supporter of president zelenskyy in the beginning, and now, hes very proud to be led by president zelenskyy. so, this is a motivated force, capable force, well-trained and high morale. >> see, and these seem to be some of the contours that, if the assessment th...

And someone like trump where someone wrote his lines and its not natural. when youre a diplomat, you develop an affinity for it. what are your thoughts for ukraine. >> its horrifying to think that everybody i know and, you know, a country of 44 million people has been brought to this by the evil doing. there is no other word for it of one man that not only are they being targeted mergelessly, women, children, men, not only that but perhaps there might be a bio attack or people are even talking a...

Ignorant. republicans have spent five years kind of bathing themselves in this affinity for putin-ism, if not putin himself. the leader of the party, donald trump, lavish and praising vladimir putin. weve talked about this, there is an awkward reality for the republicans, which is of vladimir putin is at the vanguard of a brand-new politics, ethnonationalism, right-wing ethnic nationalist authoritarian politics, that elected leaders and republicans have admired over the years, and subscribe to, ...

Worse. are you surprised that were not seeing more of these deep fakes? should we be expecting to see more in the future during this war? >> well, i think deep fakes have this really interesting role. um, i am a psychologist who studies communication and conflict and one of the things that deep fakes do is make people believe that black is white and white is black. and so, that makes efforts like the effort that his family are trying go through that much harder, right? it is very, very hard to t...