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Alarming although there are caveats and careful notes in the piece but it raises profound questions that go well before 2016. i thought that was a contribution you made. weve had discussion about meddling, you were looking much farther back at the way donald trump rolls so to speak. jonathan chait, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, ari. we are days away from the trump baby blimp taking flight. londons mayor taking on critics in the united states. also trump missing todays deadline to do ...

Between a russian intelligence ass asset and his handler. joining me now is john chait. thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks for having me. >> there is much that has been discussed about this the trump/russia relationship and intrigue. writing with that is like writing about god. a lot of writers have written about it. but what are you saying through this article and what are you hoping to engender? >> what im trying to address is a few problems with the way weve been thinking about this iss...

Saying crimea is part of russia because most people there speak russian. trump called members of his own administration reportedly stupid for trying to prevent a putin phone call and trump, of course, we know often praises putin. >> i respect putin. hes a strong leader i can tell you that. i would say putin is a nicer putin that i am. >> putin is a killer. >> a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? >> it would be great if we could get along with russia just so you understand that...

West there is just one possible route between the foothills of the tibetan plateau and the gobi desert. thats exactly where the new silk road runs. its a unique transport link and indispensable when it comes to connecting the province of shinji young which means new border to the rest of the country in the arid semi desert expanses of western china beijing and the central government were always very far away. but today the new silk road is creating change its altering the concept of time and ult...

A whole bunch of ominous warnings from some very sober people about what this might portend, what this might be the preamble for in terms of action by the president. heres max boot writing at foreign policy today. "america is heading for an unprecedented constitutional crisis." "the republican party is ready to serve as an accomplice to the obstruction of justice." heres john chait at "new york" magazine. "the mueller investigation is in mortal danger." heres david graham at "the atlantic." "the...

>> nows not the time to put in place someone whos not been tested. >> im a proven conservative with a record. >> what do you do if youre trying to get attention and donald trump is taking all of the oxygen? >> at any moment, fedex can tell you where that package is. >> chris christie talked about tracking immigrants. >> stampings people, i guess, with bar codes. >> what happened to scott walker? >> walker has been swept away these days which the trump storm. >> theres a lot of work tha...

Instantly got into the sound culture with bobby jindal repeating it, fox news repeating it. it became the narrative on talk radio. listen to what woodward is saying about obama. you see he cant do this. and somewhere we lose the word "responsibility." >> yeah. and we lose the sense of what is actually true. woodward wrote this piece last friday, i guess, and he was immediately corrected by ezra klein of the "washington post" and by me and by john chait and probably by david and by a lot of other...

Instantly got into the sound culture with bobby jindal repeating it, fox news repeating it. it became the narrative on talk radio. listen to what woodward is saying about obama. you see he cant do this. and somewhere we lose the word "responsibility." >> yeah. and we lose the sense of what is actually true. woodward wrote this piece last friday, i guess, and he was immediately corrected by ezra klein of the "washington post" and by me and by john chait and probably by david and by a lot of other...

0 good evening, americans. and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. the beltway media is focused on the wrong threat. this is "the ed show." lets get to work. >> it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters youre going to regret doing something that you believe in. >> a legendary reporter whines about the white house, only to be exposed by his own e-mail. but the facts dont matter to the right-wing media. >> hes continued on saying, you know, ronald reagan wouldnt ...

0 an aide sent him a threatening e-mail. >> i think its important for people to understand, he says, you know -- "i think you will regret staking out that claim." >> oh, come on. once the ball got rolling, woodward continued to play up the drama. >> it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters youre going to regret doing something that you believe in. >> he feels uncomfortable. you know, this really sounds juicy. is this how the white house does business? the white ho...